Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972) was a Irish poet laureate 1968-1972.

Short Biography:

With Auden and Spender, he was one of the influential left-wing poets of the 1930s. He also wrote detective novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake.

His work, which includes From Feathers to Iron 1931, and Overtures to Death in 1938, is marked by accomplished lyrics and sustained narrative power. Professor of poetry at Oxford 1951-1956, he published critical works and translations from Latin of Virgil's Georgia and Aeneid.

In 1968 he succeeded Masefield as poet laureate. His autobiography, The Buried Day in 1960, was followed by a biography written by his eldest son Sean in 1980.

Why is Cecil Day-Lewis famous?

Cecil Day-Lewis was an Irish poet and the Poet Laureate from 1968.

Cecil Day-Lewis Lists

	1904 births
	People from County Laois
	Irish poets
	English poets
	Formalist poets
	Harvard University faculty
	English crime fiction writers
	Members of the Detection Club
	Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
	Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
	Old Shirburnians
	1972 deaths
	Deaths from pancreatic cancer
	Cancer deaths in England

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Category: Poets  - ( Poets Archive)

Date Added: 22 December '11

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