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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.
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) ... Irish poetry; Irish literature; List of Irish dramatists;
An important edition was edited by Cecil Day-Lewis, later Poet laureate. It contained 229 Additional Poems , with Books I-IV, including in this case a number of American poets.
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 ...
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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.