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Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis 1904-1972 , Poet #1337024

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Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis 1904-1972 , Poet #1337024
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Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis 1904-1972 , Poet Laureate </em></td>
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Signed and dated 1960.

Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE (27 April 1904 Ballintubbert, then Queen's County, now County Laois, Ireland - 22 May 1972) was an Anglo-Irish poet, the British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and, under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, a mystery writer.

He was the son of the Rev. Frank Cecil Day Lewis and Kathleen Squires. After Day-Lewis's mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, with the help of an aunt. He was educated at Sherborne School and at Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. In Oxford he became part of the circle gathered around W.H. Auden and helped him to edit Oxford Poetry 1927. His first collection of poems, Beechen Virgil, appeared in 1925. [1]

In his youth Day-Lewis adopted communist views, becoming a member of the Communist party from 1935 to 1938, and his early poetry was marked by didacticism and a preoccupation with social themes.[2] He served as a partisan in the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War, but after the late 1930s he gradually became disillusioned,[3]. Among his works is his autobiography, Buried Day (1960), in which he renounces his communist views.[4]

In 1928 he married Mary King, the daughter of a Sherborne master, and worked as a schoolmaster in three schools.[5]

In 1935 Day-Lewis decided to supplement his income from poetry by writing a detective novel, A Question of Proof, in which he created Nigel Strangeways, an amateur investigator, who, as the nephew of ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1960</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:John Kenneth Green</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:40</td></tr>

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<tr><td>Title:Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis 1904-1972 , Poet</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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