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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 .
The poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis stayed at Lemmons in the spring of 1972, when he was dying of cancer, accompanied by his wife, Jill Balcon, and their children, Daniel Day-Lewis and Tamasin Day-Lewis. [7] He wrote his last poem in the house, "At Lemmons", and died there shortly afterwards. [8] [9] Ian Sansom writes that, for the brief period ...
Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972, E) Patrick Deeley (born 1953, E) Celia de Fréine (born 1948, I/E) Greg Delanty (born 1958, E) Kate Dempsey (poet) (born 1958, E) Louis de Paor (born 1961, I) Denis Devlin (1908–1959, E) John Dillon (1816–1866, E) Theo Dorgan (born 1953, E) Charles Donnelly (poet) (1914 - 1937) Gerard Donovan (born 1959, E)
A further 19 poems were added in an expanded second edition, The Poems of Wilfred Owen published by Edmund Blunden in 1931, and the total reached 80 (together with other fragments) in the collected poems published by Cecil Day Lewis in 1963. A first edition copy of Poems was sold by Bonhams in 2015 for £6,250.
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 ...
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.
Cecil Day-Lewis – Thou Shell of Death; Warwick Deeping – No Hero–This; Carmen de Icaza – Cristina Guzmán; Henry de Montherlant – Les Jeunes Filles (The Young Girls; first part of tetralogy) John Dos Passos – The Big Money; William Pène du Bois – Otto at Sea; Daphne du Maurier – Jamaica Inn; Walter D. Edmonds – Drums Along ...