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'Cecil Day-Lewis' (or 'Day Lewis') CBE (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972) was a British poet, the British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and, under the pseudonym of 'Nicholas Blake', a mystery writer.
Born in Ballintubbert, Laois, Ireland. He was the son of the Rev. Frank Cecil Day-Lewis and Kathleen Squires. After Day-Lewis's mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, with the help of an aunt. He was educated at Sherborne School and at Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. In Oxford he became part of the circle gathered around W.H. Auden and helped him to edit ''Oxford Poetry 1927''. His first collection of poems, ''Beechen Vigil'', appeared in 1925. [1]
In his youth Day-Lewis adopted communist views, becoming a member of the Communist party from 1935 to 1938, and his early poetry was marked by didacticism and a preoccupation with social themes.[2] He served as a partisan in the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War, but after the late 1930s he gradually became disillusioned,[1]. Among his works is his autobiography, ''Buried Day'' (1960), in which he renounces his communist views.[4]
In 1928 he married Mary King, the daughter of a Sherborne master (i.e. teacher), and worked as a schoolmaster in three schools.[1] His second marriage was to actress Jill Balcon.
In 1935 Day-Lewis decided to supplement his income from poetry by writing a detective novel, ''A Question of Proof'', in which he created Nigel Strangeways, an amateur investigator, who, as the nephew of an Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard, has the same access to, and good relations with, official crime investigation bodies as those enjoyed by other fictional sleuths such as Ellery Queen, Philo Vance and Lord Peter Wimsey.[6] This was followed by nineteen more crime novels. (In the first Nigel Strangeways novel, the detective is modeled on W. H. Auden, but Strangeways becomes a far less extravagant and more serious figure in later novels.) From the mid-1930s Day-Lewis was able to earn his living by writing.[1]
During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, an institution satirised by George Orwell in his dystopia Nineteen Eighty-Four, but equally based on Orwell's experience of the BBC. His work was now no longer so influenced by Auden and he was developing a more traditional style of lyricism. Some critics believe that he reached his full stature as a poet in ''Word Over All'' (1943), when he finally distanced himself from Auden.[8]
After the war, he joined publisher Chatto & Windus as a director and senior editor. In 1946, Day Lewis was a lecturer at Cambridge University, publishing his lectures in ''The Poetic Image'' (1947). In 1951, he married the actress Jill Balcon, daughter of Michael Balcon. He later taught poetry at Oxford, where he was Professor of Poetry from 1951-1956.[1]
Day-Lewis's two marriages yielded five children, including Academy Award-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis, food writer and journalist Tamasin Day-Lewis, and TV critic and writer Sean Day-Lewis, who wrote a biography of his father, ''C. Day Lewis: An English Literary Life'' (1980).
He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968, in succession to John Masefield. Day-Lewis was also chairman of the Arts Council Literature Panel, vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Member of the Irish Academy of Letters and a professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, London.
Day-Lewis died on May 22, 1972, in the Hertfordshire home of Kingsley Amis and Elisabeth Jane Howard, where he and his wife were staying. He was a great admirer of Thomas Hardy, and he had arranged to be buried as close as possible to the author's grave in Stinsford churchyard.[1]
Based on "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe:
:Come, live with me and be my love,
:And we will all the pleasures prove
:Of peace and plenty, bed and board,
:That chance employment may afford.
:I'll handle dainties on the docks
:And thou shalt read of summer frocks:
:At evening by the sour canals
:We'll hope to hear some madrigals.
:Care on thy maiden brow shall put
:A wreath of wrinkles, and thy foot
:Be shod with pain: not silken dress
:But toil shall tire thy loveliness.
:Hunger shall make thy modest zone
:And cheat fond death of all but bone-
:If these delights thy mind may move,
:Then live with me and be my love.[11]
★ Transitional Poem (1929)
★ From Feathers To Iron (1932)
★ Collected Poems 1929–1933 (1935)
★ A Time To Dance And Other Poems (1935)
★ Overtures to Death (1938)
★ Short Is the Time (1945)
★ Collected Poems (1954)
★ Pegasus and Other Poems (1957)
★ The Whispering Roots and Other Poems (1970)[12]
★ Complete Poems (1992)[13]
★ A Hope for Poetry (1934)[14]
★ Virgil's Georgics (1940)[15]
★ Virgil's Aeneid (1952)
★ Eclogues (1963)[16][8]
★ A Question Of Proof (1935)
★ Thou Shell Of Death (1936)
★ There's Trouble Brewing (1937)
★ The Smiler With The Knife (1938)
★ The Beast Must Die (1938)
★ Malice In Wonderland (1940)
★ The Case Of The Abominable Snowman (1941)
★ Minute For Murder (1946)
★ Head Of A Traveller (1949)
★ The Dreadful Hollow (1953)
★ The Whisper In The Gloom (1954)
★ A Tangled Web (1956)
★ End Of Chapter (1957)
★ The Widow's Cruise (1959)
★ The Sad Variety (1964)
★ The Morning After Death (1966)
★ The Private Wound (1968)
★ Dick Willoughby (1933)
★ The Otterbury Incident (1948)
★ Sean Day-Lewis, ''Cecil Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life" (1980)
★ Alfred Gelpi, ''Living in Time: The Poetry of C. Day Lewis'' (1998)
★ Peter Stanford, "C Day-Lewis: a Life" (2007)
Edited by Day-Lewis and L. A. G. Strong. Poets included were:
Lascelles Abercrombie · Kenneth Allott · J. Redwood Anderson · W. H. Auden · George Barker · Clifford Bax · Hilaire Belloc · John Betjeman · Laurence Binyon · Edmund Blunden · Gordon Bottomley · F. V. Branford · Robert Bridges · Gerald Bullett · J. Campbell · Roy Campbell · Miles Carpenter · Christopher Caudwell · G. K. Chesterton · Wilfred Rowland Childe · Richard Church · Austin Clarke · Padraic Colum · A. E. Coppard · John Cornford · Charles Dalmon · W. H. Davies · Edward Davison · Walter De la Mare · Lord Alfred Douglas · John Drinkwater · Clifford Dyment · A. E. · T. S. Eliot · John Freeman · David Gascoyne · Wilfrid Gibson · O. St. John Gogarty · G. Rostrevor Hamilton · Thomas Hardy · Kenneth Hare · Christopher Hassall · F. R. Higgins · Ralph Hodgson · A. E. Housman · Frank Kendon · D. H. Lawrence · John Lehmann · C. Day Lewis · F. L. Lucas · G. H. Luce · Lilian Bowes Lyon · Louis MacNeice · Charles Madge · John Masefield · Hugh MacDiarmid · Michael McKenna · Charlotte Mew · Harold Monro · Charlotte Mew · T. Sturge Moore · Edwin Muir · Frank O'Connor · Seumas O'Sullivan · Herbert Palmer · Eden Phillpotts · Ruth Pitter · William Plomer · F. T. Prince · Herbert Read · Laura Riding · Anne Ridler · Michael Roberts · V. Sackville-West · Siegfried Sassoon · Edward Shanks · Edith Sitwell · Osbert Sitwell · Stevie Smith · Stanley Snaith · Helen Spalding · Stephen Spender · J. C. Squire · James Stephens · L. A. G. Strong · Randall Swingler · A. S. J. Tessimond · Dylan Thomas · Ruthven Todd · W. J. Turner · Arthur Waley · Rex Warner · Sylvia Townsend Warner · Winifred Welles · Dorothy Wellesley · Laurence Whistler · Humbert Wolfe · W. B. Yeats · Andrew Young
Edited by Day-Lewis and John Lehmann. Poets included were:
Thomas Hardy · Robert Bridges · A. E. Housman · Rudyard Kipling · W. B. Yeats · Laurence Binyon · Charlotte Mew · W. H. Davies · Walter De la Mare · John Masefield · Edward Thomas · Harold Monro · John Freeman · D. H. Lawrence · Andrew Young · Frances Cornford · Siegfried Sassoon · Edwin Muir · Edith Sitwell · T. S. Eliot · Fredegond Shove · W. J. Turner · Dorothy Wellesley · Isaac Rosenberg · V. Sackville-West · Osbert Sitwell · Richard Church · Robert Nichols · Wilfred Owen · Herbert Read · Lilian Bowes Lyon · Robert Graves · Edmund Blunden · Ruth Pitter · Sacheverell Sitwell · Edgell Rickword · Roy Campbell · Michael Roberts · A. S. J. Tessimond · William Plomer · Stanley Snaith · C. Day Lewis · Frances Bellerby · Norman Cameron · Rex Warner · Peter Quennell · John Betjeman · William Empson · Vernon Watkins · Sheila Wingfield · W. H. Auden · John Lehmann · Louis MacNeice · E. J. Scovell · Julian Bell · Jocelyn Brooke · Kathleen Raine · James Reeves · W. R. Rodgers · Bernard Spencer · Stephen Spender · Lynette Roberts · Hal Summers · Rayner Heppenstall · Paul Dehn · Roy Fuller · F. T. Prince · Anne Ridler · R. S. Thomas · George Barker · Patric Dickinson · Lawrence Durrell · Clifford Dyment · Norman Nicholson · Henry Reed · Dylan Thomas · Peter Yates · John Cornford · G. S. Fraser · Laurie Lee · Diana Witherby · David Gascoyne · Jack R. Clemo · Alun Lewis · Terence Tiller · Charles Causley · W. S. Graham · John Heath-Stubbs · James Kirkup · Keith Douglas · J. C. Hall · Hamish Henderson · David Wright · Sidney Keyes · Alan Ross · Helen Spalding
1. Cecil Day-Lewis
2. Day Lewis, C
3. Cecil Day-Lewis
4. Arte Historia Personajes
5. Cecil Day-Lewis
6. Neglected British Crime Writers
7. Cecil Day-Lewis
8. BBC
9. Cecil Day-Lewis
10. Cecil Day-Lewis
11. Untitled
12. Poetry
13. Complete Poems
14. Essay
15. an extract from this, ''Orpheus and Eurydice'', appeared in ''The Queen's Book of the Red Cross''
16. Translation
17. BBC
★ List of Gresham Professors of Rhetoric
★
★
★ Cecil Day-Lewis in the kirjasto website - information
★ Day-Lewis' poem 'Newsreel' read over footage from 1930s Pathe newsreels
★ Day-Lewis' Grave
★ Day Lewis, A Revised Bibliography, 1929-39 and Index of MSS Locations with Introductory Notes'' by Nick Watson, (a 65 page booklet, Radged Press, 2003)
★ Recordings of interviews at BBC Four website (Realplayer required)
★ The Volunteer - An ode to the International Brigade by Cecil Day Lewis
'Cecil Day-Lewis' (or 'Day Lewis') CBE (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972) was a British poet, the British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and, under the pseudonym of 'Nicholas Blake', a mystery writer.
Life
Born in Ballintubbert, Laois, Ireland. He was the son of the Rev. Frank Cecil Day-Lewis and Kathleen Squires. After Day-Lewis's mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, with the help of an aunt. He was educated at Sherborne School and at Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. In Oxford he became part of the circle gathered around W.H. Auden and helped him to edit ''Oxford Poetry 1927''. His first collection of poems, ''Beechen Vigil'', appeared in 1925. [1]
In his youth Day-Lewis adopted communist views, becoming a member of the Communist party from 1935 to 1938, and his early poetry was marked by didacticism and a preoccupation with social themes.[2] He served as a partisan in the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War, but after the late 1930s he gradually became disillusioned,[1]. Among his works is his autobiography, ''Buried Day'' (1960), in which he renounces his communist views.[4]
In 1928 he married Mary King, the daughter of a Sherborne master (i.e. teacher), and worked as a schoolmaster in three schools.[1] His second marriage was to actress Jill Balcon.
In 1935 Day-Lewis decided to supplement his income from poetry by writing a detective novel, ''A Question of Proof'', in which he created Nigel Strangeways, an amateur investigator, who, as the nephew of an Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard, has the same access to, and good relations with, official crime investigation bodies as those enjoyed by other fictional sleuths such as Ellery Queen, Philo Vance and Lord Peter Wimsey.[6] This was followed by nineteen more crime novels. (In the first Nigel Strangeways novel, the detective is modeled on W. H. Auden, but Strangeways becomes a far less extravagant and more serious figure in later novels.) From the mid-1930s Day-Lewis was able to earn his living by writing.[1]
During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, an institution satirised by George Orwell in his dystopia Nineteen Eighty-Four, but equally based on Orwell's experience of the BBC. His work was now no longer so influenced by Auden and he was developing a more traditional style of lyricism. Some critics believe that he reached his full stature as a poet in ''Word Over All'' (1943), when he finally distanced himself from Auden.[8]
After the war, he joined publisher Chatto & Windus as a director and senior editor. In 1946, Day Lewis was a lecturer at Cambridge University, publishing his lectures in ''The Poetic Image'' (1947). In 1951, he married the actress Jill Balcon, daughter of Michael Balcon. He later taught poetry at Oxford, where he was Professor of Poetry from 1951-1956.[1]
Day-Lewis's two marriages yielded five children, including Academy Award-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis, food writer and journalist Tamasin Day-Lewis, and TV critic and writer Sean Day-Lewis, who wrote a biography of his father, ''C. Day Lewis: An English Literary Life'' (1980).
He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968, in succession to John Masefield. Day-Lewis was also chairman of the Arts Council Literature Panel, vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Member of the Irish Academy of Letters and a professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, London.
Day-Lewis died on May 22, 1972, in the Hertfordshire home of Kingsley Amis and Elisabeth Jane Howard, where he and his wife were staying. He was a great admirer of Thomas Hardy, and he had arranged to be buried as close as possible to the author's grave in Stinsford churchyard.[1]
Poetry
Headstone of Cecil Day-Lewis in the Stinsford churchyard
''"Song"''
Based on "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe:
:Come, live with me and be my love,
:And we will all the pleasures prove
:Of peace and plenty, bed and board,
:That chance employment may afford.
:I'll handle dainties on the docks
:And thou shalt read of summer frocks:
:At evening by the sour canals
:We'll hope to hear some madrigals.
:Care on thy maiden brow shall put
:A wreath of wrinkles, and thy foot
:Be shod with pain: not silken dress
:But toil shall tire thy loveliness.
:Hunger shall make thy modest zone
:And cheat fond death of all but bone-
:If these delights thy mind may move,
:Then live with me and be my love.[11]
Selected Works
Poetry collections
★ Transitional Poem (1929)
★ From Feathers To Iron (1932)
★ Collected Poems 1929–1933 (1935)
★ A Time To Dance And Other Poems (1935)
★ Overtures to Death (1938)
★ Short Is the Time (1945)
★ Collected Poems (1954)
★ Pegasus and Other Poems (1957)
★ The Whispering Roots and Other Poems (1970)[12]
★ Complete Poems (1992)[13]
Essays
★ A Hope for Poetry (1934)[14]
Translations
★ Virgil's Georgics (1940)[15]
★ Virgil's Aeneid (1952)
★ Eclogues (1963)[16][8]
Novels Written as Nicholas Blake
★ A Question Of Proof (1935)
★ Thou Shell Of Death (1936)
★ There's Trouble Brewing (1937)
★ The Smiler With The Knife (1938)
★ The Beast Must Die (1938)
★ Malice In Wonderland (1940)
★ The Case Of The Abominable Snowman (1941)
★ Minute For Murder (1946)
★ Head Of A Traveller (1949)
★ The Dreadful Hollow (1953)
★ The Whisper In The Gloom (1954)
★ A Tangled Web (1956)
★ End Of Chapter (1957)
★ The Widow's Cruise (1959)
★ The Sad Variety (1964)
★ The Morning After Death (1966)
★ The Private Wound (1968)
Children's Novels
★ Dick Willoughby (1933)
★ The Otterbury Incident (1948)
Bibliography
★ Sean Day-Lewis, ''Cecil Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life" (1980)
★ Alfred Gelpi, ''Living in Time: The Poetry of C. Day Lewis'' (1998)
★ Peter Stanford, "C Day-Lewis: a Life" (2007)
''A New Anthology of Modern Verse 1920-1940'' (1941)
Edited by Day-Lewis and L. A. G. Strong. Poets included were:
Lascelles Abercrombie · Kenneth Allott · J. Redwood Anderson · W. H. Auden · George Barker · Clifford Bax · Hilaire Belloc · John Betjeman · Laurence Binyon · Edmund Blunden · Gordon Bottomley · F. V. Branford · Robert Bridges · Gerald Bullett · J. Campbell · Roy Campbell · Miles Carpenter · Christopher Caudwell · G. K. Chesterton · Wilfred Rowland Childe · Richard Church · Austin Clarke · Padraic Colum · A. E. Coppard · John Cornford · Charles Dalmon · W. H. Davies · Edward Davison · Walter De la Mare · Lord Alfred Douglas · John Drinkwater · Clifford Dyment · A. E. · T. S. Eliot · John Freeman · David Gascoyne · Wilfrid Gibson · O. St. John Gogarty · G. Rostrevor Hamilton · Thomas Hardy · Kenneth Hare · Christopher Hassall · F. R. Higgins · Ralph Hodgson · A. E. Housman · Frank Kendon · D. H. Lawrence · John Lehmann · C. Day Lewis · F. L. Lucas · G. H. Luce · Lilian Bowes Lyon · Louis MacNeice · Charles Madge · John Masefield · Hugh MacDiarmid · Michael McKenna · Charlotte Mew · Harold Monro · Charlotte Mew · T. Sturge Moore · Edwin Muir · Frank O'Connor · Seumas O'Sullivan · Herbert Palmer · Eden Phillpotts · Ruth Pitter · William Plomer · F. T. Prince · Herbert Read · Laura Riding · Anne Ridler · Michael Roberts · V. Sackville-West · Siegfried Sassoon · Edward Shanks · Edith Sitwell · Osbert Sitwell · Stevie Smith · Stanley Snaith · Helen Spalding · Stephen Spender · J. C. Squire · James Stephens · L. A. G. Strong · Randall Swingler · A. S. J. Tessimond · Dylan Thomas · Ruthven Todd · W. J. Turner · Arthur Waley · Rex Warner · Sylvia Townsend Warner · Winifred Welles · Dorothy Wellesley · Laurence Whistler · Humbert Wolfe · W. B. Yeats · Andrew Young
''The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry 1915-1955'' (1956)
Edited by Day-Lewis and John Lehmann. Poets included were:
Thomas Hardy · Robert Bridges · A. E. Housman · Rudyard Kipling · W. B. Yeats · Laurence Binyon · Charlotte Mew · W. H. Davies · Walter De la Mare · John Masefield · Edward Thomas · Harold Monro · John Freeman · D. H. Lawrence · Andrew Young · Frances Cornford · Siegfried Sassoon · Edwin Muir · Edith Sitwell · T. S. Eliot · Fredegond Shove · W. J. Turner · Dorothy Wellesley · Isaac Rosenberg · V. Sackville-West · Osbert Sitwell · Richard Church · Robert Nichols · Wilfred Owen · Herbert Read · Lilian Bowes Lyon · Robert Graves · Edmund Blunden · Ruth Pitter · Sacheverell Sitwell · Edgell Rickword · Roy Campbell · Michael Roberts · A. S. J. Tessimond · William Plomer · Stanley Snaith · C. Day Lewis · Frances Bellerby · Norman Cameron · Rex Warner · Peter Quennell · John Betjeman · William Empson · Vernon Watkins · Sheila Wingfield · W. H. Auden · John Lehmann · Louis MacNeice · E. J. Scovell · Julian Bell · Jocelyn Brooke · Kathleen Raine · James Reeves · W. R. Rodgers · Bernard Spencer · Stephen Spender · Lynette Roberts · Hal Summers · Rayner Heppenstall · Paul Dehn · Roy Fuller · F. T. Prince · Anne Ridler · R. S. Thomas · George Barker · Patric Dickinson · Lawrence Durrell · Clifford Dyment · Norman Nicholson · Henry Reed · Dylan Thomas · Peter Yates · John Cornford · G. S. Fraser · Laurie Lee · Diana Witherby · David Gascoyne · Jack R. Clemo · Alun Lewis · Terence Tiller · Charles Causley · W. S. Graham · John Heath-Stubbs · James Kirkup · Keith Douglas · J. C. Hall · Hamish Henderson · David Wright · Sidney Keyes · Alan Ross · Helen Spalding
Notes
1. Cecil Day-Lewis
2. Day Lewis, C
3. Cecil Day-Lewis
4. Arte Historia Personajes
5. Cecil Day-Lewis
6. Neglected British Crime Writers
7. Cecil Day-Lewis
8. BBC
9. Cecil Day-Lewis
10. Cecil Day-Lewis
11. Untitled
12. Poetry
13. Complete Poems
14. Essay
15. an extract from this, ''Orpheus and Eurydice'', appeared in ''The Queen's Book of the Red Cross''
16. Translation
17. BBC
See also
★ List of Gresham Professors of Rhetoric
External links
★
★
★ Cecil Day-Lewis in the kirjasto website - information
★ Day-Lewis' poem 'Newsreel' read over footage from 1930s Pathe newsreels
★ Day-Lewis' Grave
★ Day Lewis, A Revised Bibliography, 1929-39 and Index of MSS Locations with Introductory Notes'' by Nick Watson, (a 65 page booklet, Radged Press, 2003)
★ Recordings of interviews at BBC Four website (Realplayer required)
★ The Volunteer - An ode to the International Brigade by Cecil Day Lewis
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