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Cecil Day-Lewis CBE (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways.
Oct 11, 2024 · C. Day-Lewis (born April 27, 1904, Ballintubbert, County Leix, Ire.—died May 22, 1972, Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire, Eng.) was one of the leading British poets of the 1930s; he then turned from poetry of left-wing political statement to an individual lyricism expressed in more traditional forms.
Cecil Day-Lewis was an Irish-born British poet, essayist, and novelist. He was one of the leading British poets in the 1930s and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968. He had a difficult childhood, having lost his mother when he was just a toddler.
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Cecil Day Lewis was an Irish poet and writer, later Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. He is most remembered today for his own lyric poetry, his detective fiction written under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, and for being the father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
Parents everywhere can relate to this poem, Walking Away, by Cecil Day-Lewis. Here, the speaker is a parent who thinks back upon the life of his child. It is the child’s eighteenth birthday, or nearly, and the speaker cannot believe how much time has gone by and how much has changed.
Cecil Day-Lewis (who wrote as C. Day Lewis) was born in Ireland in 1904, the son of a Church of Ireland minister. The family moved to England in 1905 and his mother died three years later, when Cecil was four years old. He was looked after by his father, with whom he had a difficult relationship, and by his mother’s sister, Agnes.
Sep 28, 2021 · The complete poems of C. Day Lewis Bookreader Item Preview ... The complete poems of C. Day Lewis by Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972. Publication date 1992 Topics English poetry Publisher Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 1.3G . xxi, 745 pages ; 23 cm
Cecil Day-Lewis CBE (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Irish-born British poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake.
Cecil Day-Lewis was an Irish poet who served as Poet Laureate from 1968 to 1972. His work is often related to that of W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender. He wrote many important collections of poetry, like The Gate and Other Poems, and some prose as well, such as his autobiography The Buried Day.
