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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 .
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 wife, actress Jill Balcon (1925–2009). His older sister, Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953), is a television chef and food critic. [ 8 ]
Poet laureate [1] [4] Portrait Birth and death Dates of laureateship Appointed by Length of tenure (years) Ref. John Dryden: 1631–1700 13 April 1668 – 1688 Charles II: 20 [16] [17] Thomas Shadwell: c. 1640–1692: 9 March 1689 – 19 or 20 November 1692 William III and Mary II: 3 [18] [19] Nahum Tate: 1652–1715 23 December 1692 – 30 ...
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) [1] [2] [3] is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age ...
Day-Lewis is a surname, and may refer to: Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), English poet; Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957), Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-award nominated English actor; son of Cecil Day-Lewis; Frank Day-Lewis (1872–1938), Church of Ireland priest; father of Cecil Day-Lewis
John Edward Masefield OM (/ ˈ m eɪ s ˌ f iː l d, ˈ m eɪ z-/; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, and the poems "The Everlasting Mercy" and "Sea-Fever".
Gábor Dayka (1769–1796), Hungarian poet; Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Anglo-Irish poet; UK Poet Laureate 1968–1972; James Deahl (born 1945), Canadian poet and publisher; Dulcie Deamer (1890–1972), Australian poet and novelist; John F. Deane (born 1943), Irish poet and novelist; Aleš Debeljak (1961–2016), Slovenian critic, poet and ...
This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. [1] Main country of residence as a poet (not place of birth): A = Australia, Ag = Antigua, B = Barbados, Bo = Bosnia, C = Canada, Ch = Chile, Cu = Cuba, D = Dominica, De = Denmark, E = England, F = France, G = Germany, Ga = Gambia, Gd = Grenada, Gh = Ghana/Gold Coast, Gr = Greece, Gu = Guyana/British ...