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May 23, 1972 · LONDON, May 22 — Cecil Day Lewis, Poet Laureate of Britain, died today at the age of 68. ... Mrs. Day Lewis Jill Baleon, the actress — was with him. He was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II in ...
Born in Ireland and brought up in England, Cecil Day-Lewis began to dedicate himself to poetry when at Oxford in the 1920s. During the 1930s he became closely associated with W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Louis MacNeice, poets whose espousal of left-wing causes was reflected in their writing. By 1935 he was a full-time writer and he also published his first detective novel under the name Nicholas Blake. C. Day-Lewis continued to write poetry and in 1951 he was elected Professor of Poetry ...
Day-Lewis's father Cecil and maternal grandfather Sir Michael Balcon were both awarded English Heritage blue plaques to mark their respective contributions to literature and cinema in the UK. Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis was born on 29 April 1957 in Kensington , London, the second child of poet Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon (1925–2009).
Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate 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.
Nov 12, 2022 · Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–72) is best known for being Great Britain’s Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death and for being the father of renowned actor Daniel Day-Lewis. However, one of his most…
Born in Ireland and brought up in England, Cecil Day-Lewis began to dedicate himself to poetry when at Oxford in the 1920s. During the 1930s he became closely associated with WH Auden, Stephen Spender and Louis MacNeice, poets whose espousal of left-wing causes was reflected in their writing. By 1935 he was a full-time writer and he also published his first detective novel under the name Nicholas Blake. C. Day-Lewis continued to write poetry and in 1951 he was elected Professor of Poetry at ...
Cecil Day-Lewis was born on 27 April 1904 in Ballintubber, Ireland. He was a writer, known for The Beast Must Die (1952), This Man Must Die (1969) and The Beast Must Die (2021). He was married to Jill Balcon and Constance Mary King.
