Cecil Day-Lewis
b. 1904 – d. 1972 · 99 books
Biography
>Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis was born in County Laois, Ireland, in 1904. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his clergyman father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. Lewis initially worked as a teacher to supplement his income from his poetry writing. Under the pen-name <a href=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2471327A/Nicholas_Blake/>Nicholas Blake</a>, he published his first Nigel Strangeways novel, *A Question of Proof*, in 1935. Lewis went on to write a further nineteen crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways, as well as numerous poetry collections and translations.
>During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in *Minute for Murder*, and after the war he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director. He was married twice, in 1928 to Constance M King, the daughter of a master at Sherborne, and in 1951 to the actress Jill Balcon. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and died in 1972 at the home of his friend, the writer Kingsley Amis.
>During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in *Minute for Murder*, and after the war he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director. He was married twice, in 1928 to Constance M King, the daughter of a master at Sherborne, and in 1951 to the actress Jill Balcon. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and died in 1972 at the home of his friend, the writer Kingsley Amis.
Books by Cecil Day-Lewis
Bodies from the Library
Smertelʹnyĭ rozygrysh
Golova puteshestvennika
Steering to Glory
The Deepcut Review
Mehrauli
Minuto Para El Crimen
Classic Detective Stories
10 relatos de detectives
The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis
Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis
Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis
The Nicholas Blake Treasury
C.Day Lewis Reads C.Day Lewis
C.Day Lewis Reads C.Day Lewis
Country House Murders
Damo shel yeled ḳaṭan
Damo shel yeled ḳaṭan
Synthesis of protease substrat
Synthesis of protease substrates
Collected poems of C. Day Lewi
Collected poems of C. Day Lewis
UK and US standards
UK and US standards
The minds in chains
The minds in chains
Poems, 1925-72
The poems of C. Day Lewis, 1925-1972
A lasting joy
The worm of death
C Day-Lewis reading his own po
C Day-Lewis reading his own poetry
Milḥamot Oṭerbery
Milḥamot Oṭerbery
A Christmas way
A Christmas way
Collected poems of C. Day Lewi
Collected poems of C. Day Lewis 1954
Collected poems, 1954
Collected poems, 1954
On translating poetry
The whispering roots
Poets' Corner, Westminster Abb
Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
![Selected poems [of] C. Day Lewis](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/15059663-L.jpg)
Selected poems [of] C. Day Lewis
A need for poetry?
A need for poetry?
The private wound
An anthology of modern verse, 1920-1940
C.Day Lewis
Selections from his poetry
Selections from his poetry
The Abbey that refused to die
The Abbey that refused to die
The Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid of Virgil;
The morning after death
The Nicholas Blake Omnibus
The Nicholas Blake Omnibus
The lyric impulse
The room & other poems
The smiler with the knife
On not saying everything
On not saying everything
The Nicholas Blake Treasury (T
The Nicholas Blake Treasury (Thou Shell of Death; The Beast Must Die; The Corpse in the Snowman)
The sad variety
The deadly joker
The deadly joker
The Gate and Other Poems
The Gate and Other Poems
A book of English lyrics
A book of English lyrics
English lyric poems, 1500-1900
End of chapter
New Poems 1957
New Poems 1957
The poet's way of knowledge
The poet's way of knowledge
The Chatto book of modern poetry, 1915-1955
Colected poems of C. Day Lewis
Notable images of virtue
The Collected Poems of C.D.Lewis
The whisper in the gloom
Clefs pour la poe sie
Clefs pour la poe sie
The dreadful hollow
The dreadful hollow
THE AENEID - A20
THE AENEID - A20
The grand manner
The Echoing Green Book III
The Echoing Green Book III
The Penguin Poets
The Penguin Poets C. Day Lewis
The Penguin Poets C. Day Lewis
The poet's task :ban inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 1 June 1951
Poetry for you and The echoing
Poetry for you and The echoing green (in four parts)
Head of a traveler
Collected poems, 1929-1936
Poems 1943-1947
Minute for murder
The colloquial element in English poetry
The Georgics of Virgil, Tr. by
The Georgics of Virgil, Tr. by C. Day Lewis, with an Introd. by Louis Bromfield
Orion Volume III (3)
Short is the time
A new anthology of modern verse, 1920-1940
Poems in wartime
Child of misfortune
The Nicholas Blake treasury, vol. 2
Anatomy of Oxford
The beast must die
There's trouble brewing
noah and the waters
noah and the waters
The friendly tree
Thou Shell of Death
We're not going to do nothing
We're not going to do nothing
A time to dance and other poems
Collected Poems 1929-1933 & A
Collected Poems 1929-1933 & A hope for poetry
Revolution in writing
Revolution in writing
A hope for poetry
The Songs of Skye
The Songs of Skye
Dick Willoughby
The magnetic mountain
The magnetic mountain
Transitional poem
Country comets
Country comets
Beechen vigil
Beechen vigil
Poésie pour tous
Poésie pour tous
SELECTED POEMS; ED. BY JILL BALCON