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Cecil Day Lewis

432 words, approx. 2 pages

The British poet, essayist, and detective story writer Cecil Day Lewis (1904-1972) regarded himself as a voice of revolution, both poetic and political, taking as a necessary starting point the "certa... Read more

C(ecil) Day Lewis

3,551 words, approx. 12 pages

Nicholas Blake was the crime-fiction pseudonym of Cecil Day Lewis, poet, translator of Virgil, critic, and editor. His twenty detective novels, sixteen featuring the cases of amateur detective Nigel S... Read more

C(ecil) Day Lewis

7,843 words, approx. 27 pages

In 1927, Cecil Day-Lewis eliminated the hyphen from his writing name as a gesture of "inverted snobbery." But according to his son, Sean Day-Lewis, he tried to restore it at the end of his life when h... Read more

C(ecil) Day Lewis

7,627 words, approx. 26 pages

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 o... Read more