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Day Lewis |
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| Nationality - Irish |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 27 Apr 1904
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Date of death - 1972 |
| Place of birth
- Ballintubbert : County Laois |
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Cecil Day Lewis was born at Ballintubbert, Queen's county (now county Laois), Ireland on April 27, 1904.
After his mother died he was brought up in London by his aunt and father, who was a Protestant clergyman.
Cecil graduated from Wadham College, Oxford, in 1927 - it was here in Oxford that he became part of the circle gathered around W.H. Auden and helped him to edit Oxford Poetry 1927. His own first collection of poems, BEECHEN VIRGIL, appeared in 1925.
During the 1930's Cecil began to write detective stories using the pen-name Nicholas Blake and featuring a detective named Nigel Strangeways.
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In 1951 Day-Lewis married actress Jill Balcon, with whom he lived in a large Georgian house in Greenwich. He was professor of poetry at Oxford in 1951-56, and lecturer in the 1950s and 1960 at several universities.
Cecil Day Lewis died on May 22, 1972, in the Hertfordshire home of Kingsley Amis and Elisabeth Jane Howard, where he and his wife were staying. A great admirer of Thomas Hardy, he had arranged that he should be buried as close as possible to the author's grave in Stinsford churchyard.
Day-Lewis was refused a plaque in 'Poets' Corner' Westminster Abbey. |
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