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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.
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.
Cecil Day-Lewis (ou Day Lewis), (né à Ballintubbert, en Irlande le 27 avril 1904 - mort à Hadley Wood (en), dans le Hertfordshire, au Royaume-uni, le 22 mai 1972) est un poète britannique, poète lauréat de 1967 à 1972, commandeur de l'Ordre de l'Empire britannique et, sous le pseudonyme de Nicholas Blake, un auteur de romans policiers.
Sep 28, 2021 · 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.
