Cecil Day Lewis
Poet
Cecil Day-Lewis CBE, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate 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... Wikipedia
Born: April 27, 1904, Ballintubbert, Ireland
Died: May 22, 1972 (age 68 years), Lemmons, Barnet, United Kingdom
Children: Daniel Day-Lewis, Tamasin Day-Lewis, Sean Day-Lewis, and more
Spouse: Jill Balcon (m. 1951–1972) and Constance Mary King (m. 1928–1951)
Grandchildren: Ronan Day-Lewis, Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis, Cashel Blake Day-Lewis, and more
Parents: Frank Cecil Day-Lewis and Kathleen Squires
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Cecil Day-Lewis CBE often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972.
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Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) was an Irish-born poet. He was Poet Laureate for Britain from 1968 until his death in 1972 and, under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, ...
The poem celebrates heroic self-sacrifice, sticking close to the action described and pointing the political moral only in the opening and closing passages.
Cecil Day-Lewis. (1904-1972), Poet Laureate. Sitter in 54 portraits. Poet, critic and detective storywriter (as Nicholas Blake).
4 days ago · C. Day-Lewis was one of the leading British poets of the 1930s; he then turned from poetry of left-wing political statement to an individual ...
Born in Ireland and brought up in England, Cecil Day-Lewis began to dedicate himself to poetry when at Oxford in the 1920s. During the 1930s he became ...
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 ...
Transitional Poem ["My love is a tower"] (excerpt) · You That Love England · A Failure · An Episode · Derelict · ["Now the full-throated daffodils"] · ["Do not expect ...
Jul 19, 2023 · The Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis was put forward to be the UK's poet laureate in 1968 after two other frontrunners were dismissed as ...