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Cecil Day-Lewis CBE (* 27. April 1904 in Ballintubber, County Laois, Irland; † 22. Mai 1972 in London) war ein irisch- britischer Schriftsteller und Dichter, der zunächst sozialkritische Prosa schrieb und später Hofdichter wurde. Von 1935 bis 1966 schrieb er unter dem Pseudonym Nicholas Blake eine Reihe von Kriminalromanen. Inhaltsverzeichnis.
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 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 has two contrasting claims on our attention. The first is as an archetypal poet of the 1930s, the first-born, last-named member of the Auden/Spender/Day-Lewis triad, and the only one of those three friends whose commitment to Marxism extended to joining and working for the Communist…
Daniel Day-Lewis wurde als zweites Kind der britischen Schauspielerin Jill Balcon und des irisch-britischen Schriftstellers Cecil Day-Lewis geboren. Sein Großvater mütterlicherseits, Michael Balcon , war als Chef der Ealing Studios eine bedeutende Persönlichkeit in der britischen Filmindustrie , seine ältere Schwester Lydia ...
23. Apr. 2024 · C. Day-Lewis (born April 27, 1904, Ballintubbert, County Leix, Ire.—died May 22, 1972, Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire, Eng.) was one of the leading British poets of the 1930s; he then turned from poetry of left-wing political statement to an individual lyricism expressed in more traditional forms.
A late poem by C. Day Lewis movingly describes Agnes’s loving care, and her eventual exile ten years later on the remarriage of her brother-in-law. After prep school in London, Cecil escaped his father by joining Sherborne School as a boarder. He then studied classics at Oxford, and early on decided he would try to earn a living as a poet. In ...
31. März 2012 · Complete Poems. Cecil Day-Lewis. Random House, Mar 31, 2012 - Literary Criticism - 768 pages. Together with Auden, Spender and MacNeice, C. Day Lewis was one of the leading young poets...
