C. Day Lewis
C. Day Lewis
born in Ireland in 1904, was Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in May 1972. He published poetry, essays, critical studies, translations and crime novels, which were written under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. A popular broadcaster, lecturer and reader of poetry, he held many prestigious academic positions. Most notably, Clark Lecturer at Cambridge (1946), Professor of Poetry at Oxford (1951-56) and Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard (1964-65). He was awarded a CBE and was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.
C. Day Lewis: Selected Poems
C. Day Lewis: Selected Poems
In this centenary edition of C. Day Lewis's poems, Jill Balcon has substantially extended her husband's own Penguin selections of 1951 and 1969, including not only his last collection The Whispering Roots (1970), but also vers d'occasion written when he was Poet Laureate and a number of the Posthumous Poems. This broad retrospective allows the reader a proper view of the technical variety and range of Day Lewis's work, from the pastoral lyrics of his youth, inspired by Hardy and Yeats, through the political verse of the 1930s, to the reflective and more personal poems of...
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