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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 .
Cecil Day-Lewis has two contrasting claims on our attention. The first is as an archetypal poet of the 1930s, the first-born, last-named member of the Auden/Spender/Day-Lewis triad, and the only one of those three friends whose commitment to Marxism extended to joining and working for the Communist…
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.
May 18, 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 (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.
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.
English poet and critic. Examine the life, times, and work of Cecil Day Lewis through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
Mar 31, 2012 · Cecil Day-Lewis. Random House, Mar 31, 2012 - Literary Criticism - 768 pages. Together with Auden, Spender and MacNeice, C. Day Lewis was one of the leading young poets who in the 1930s...
Jan 2, 2008 · C. Day Lewis (Cecil Day-Lewis, 1904-72) was a poet of Anglo-Irish origin who was in the 1930s central to the idealistic Leftism of the “Auden group” of young English writers, but who subsequently evolved into a more quietly private kind of poet, a distinguished translator of Virgil and eventually Poet Laureate (1968-72).
Jul 19, 2023 · The Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis was put forward to be the UK’s poet laureate in 1968 after two other frontrunners were dismissed as ineligible for the prestigious position.
