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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 ("day") Campbell, in common with much literary journalism of the period, imagined that the four were a group of like-minded poets although they shared little but left-wing views in the broadest sense of the word. Campbell elsewhere implied that the four were homosexual, but MacNeice and Day-Lewis were entirely heterosexual.
This is a list of major poets of the Modernist poetry ... Cecil Day-Lewis; T. S. Eliot; Roy Fisher; ... List of modernist writers; List of poetry groups and movements ...
This is a list of notable poets with Wikipedia pages, ... Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972, E) Patrick Deeley ... Poetry portal; Irish poetry;
John Dryden, the first Poet Laureate. The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom on the advice of the prime minister.The role does not entail any specific duties, but there is an expectation that the holder will write verse for significant national occasions.
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 the poet Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) and his second ...
Cecil Day-Lewis: Collected Poems 1929–1933 [11] A Time to Dance, and Other Poems [11] Walter de la Mare, Poems 1919 to 1934 [11] T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral; Christopher Hassall, Poems of Two Years [11] Eiluned Lewis, December Apples (Welsh poet published in the United Kingdom) Louis MacNeice, Poems [11] Herbert Read, Poems 1914–34 ...
This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. [1] ... Sarah Day (born 1958, A) Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972, E)