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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BB_%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%AD%CE%B9-%CE%9B%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%B9%CF%82" title="Σέσιλ Ντέι-Λιούις – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σέσιλ Ντέι-Λιούις" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Day-Lewis" title="Cecil Day-Lewis – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Cecil Day-Lewis" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Day-Lewis" title="Cecil Day-Lewis – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Cecil Day-Lewis" 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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Irish-born British poet (1904–1972)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For British writer and lay theologian, see <a href="/wiki/C._S._Lewis" title="C. S. Lewis">C. S. Lewis</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Nicholas Blake" redirects here. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Blake_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Nicholas Blake (disambiguation)">Nicholas Blake (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Cecil Day-Lewis</div><br /><div class="honorific-suffix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">CBE</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Cecil_Day-Lewis.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/16/Cecil_Day-Lewis.jpg/220px-Cecil_Day-Lewis.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Cecil_Day-Lewis.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="268" data-file-height="357" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1904-04-27</span>)</span>27 April 1904<br />Ballintubbert, <a href="/wiki/County_Laois" title="County Laois">County Laois</a>, Ireland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">22 May 1972<span style="display:none">(1972-05-22)</span> (aged 68)<br /><a href="/wiki/Monken_Hadley" title="Monken Hadley">Monken Hadley</a>, Greater London, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">St Michael's Church, <a href="/wiki/Stinsford" title="Stinsford">Stinsford</a>, Dorset, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r979066050">.mw-parser-output ul.cslist,.mw-parser-output ul.sslist{margin:0;padding:0;display:inline-block;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output ul.cslist-embedded{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .cslist li,.mw-parser-output .sslist li{margin:0;padding:0 0.25em 0 0;display:inline-block}.mw-parser-output .cslist li:after{content:", "}.mw-parser-output .sslist li:after{content:"; "}.mw-parser-output .cslist li:last-child:after,.mw-parser-output .sslist li:last-child:after{content:none}</style><ul class="cslist"><li>Poet</li><li>novelist</li></ul></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r979066050"><ul class="cslist"><li>British</li><li>Irish</li></ul></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Wadham_College,_Oxford" title="Wadham College, Oxford">Wadham College, Oxford</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Constance Mary King</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1928; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1951)<wbr /></div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jill_Balcon" title="Jill Balcon">Jill Balcon</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1951)<wbr /></div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">4, including <a href="/wiki/Tamasin_Day-Lewis" title="Tamasin Day-Lewis">Tamasin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Day-Lewis" title="Daniel Day-Lewis">Daniel</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Poet_Laureate_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom">Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />2 January 1968 – 22 May 1972</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Masefield" title="John Masefield">John Masefield</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Betjeman" title="John Betjeman">John Betjeman</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Cecil Day-Lewis</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">CBE</a></span></span> (or <b>Day Lewis</b>; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as <b>C. Day-Lewis</b>, was an <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Irish">Anglo-Irish</a> poet and <a href="/wiki/Poet_Laureate_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom">Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom</a> from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of <b>Nicholas Blake</b>, most of which feature the fictional detective <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Strangeways" title="Nigel Strangeways">Nigel Strangeways</a>. </p><p>During World War II, Day-Lewis worked as a publications editor in the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Information_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)">Ministry of Information</a> for the U.K. government, and also served in the <a href="/wiki/Musbury" title="Musbury">Musbury</a> branch of the <a href="/wiki/Home_Guard_(United_Kingdom)" title="Home Guard (United Kingdom)">British Home Guard</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the father of actor <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Day-Lewis" title="Daniel Day-Lewis">Daniel Day-Lewis</a>, and documentary filmmaker and television chef <a href="/wiki/Tamasin_Day-Lewis" title="Tamasin Day-Lewis">Tamasin Day-Lewis</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_work">Life and work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Day-Lewis was born in 1904 in Ballintubbert, <a href="/wiki/Athy" title="Athy">Athy</a>/<a href="/wiki/Stradbally" title="Stradbally">Stradbally</a> border, Queen's County (now known as <a href="/wiki/County_Laois" title="County Laois">County Laois</a>), Ireland.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the son of Frank Day-Lewis, a <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Church of Ireland</a> rector of that parish, and Kathleen Blake (née Squires; died 1906).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of his family were from England and the family had originally been from <a href="/wiki/Berkhamsted" title="Berkhamsted">Berkhamsted</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Hertfordshire" title="Hertfordshire">Hertfordshire</a>, and settled in Ireland in the late 1860s. His father took the surname "Day-Lewis" as a combination of his own birth father's ("Day") and adoptive father's ("Lewis") surnames.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his autobiography <i>The Buried Day</i> (1960), Day-Lewis wrote: "As a writer I do not use the hyphen in my surname – a piece of inverted snobbery which has produced rather mixed results."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatleft" style="; color: #202122;background-color: #FFFFF0;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <div class="poem"> <p>IS IT FAR TO GO?<br /> <br /> <i>Is it far to go?</i><br /> A step — no further.<br /> <i>Is it hard to go?</i><br /> Ask the melting snow,<br /> The eddying feather.<br /> <br /> <i>What can I take there?</i><br /> Not a hank, not a hair.<br /> <i>What shall I leave behind?</i><br /> Ask the hastening wind,<br /> The fainting star.<br /> <br /> <i>Shall I be gone long?</i><br /> For ever and a day.<br /> <i>To whom there belong?</i><br /> Ask the stone to say,<br /> Ask my song.<br /> <br /> <i>Who will say farewell?</i><br /> The beating bell.<br /> <i>Will anyone miss me?</i><br /> That I dare not tell —<br /> Quick, Rose, and kiss me. </p> </div> <p>(c. 1940)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> </div> <p>After the death of his mother in 1906, when he was two years old, Cecil was brought up in London by his father, with the help of an aunt, spending summer holidays with relatives in <a href="/wiki/County_Wexford" title="County Wexford">County Wexford</a>. He was educated at <a href="/wiki/Sherborne_School" title="Sherborne School">Sherborne School</a> and at <a href="/wiki/Wadham_College,_Oxford" title="Wadham College, Oxford">Wadham College, Oxford</a>. In Oxford, Day-Lewis became part of the circle gathered around <a href="/wiki/W._H._Auden" title="W. H. Auden">W. H. Auden</a> and helped him to edit <i>Oxford Poetry 1927</i>. His first collection of poems, <i>Beechen Vigil</i>, appeared in 1925.<sup id="cite_ref-greenwichpast_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greenwichpast-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1928, Day-Lewis married Constance Mary King, the daughter of a Sherborne teacher. Day-Lewis worked as a schoolmaster in three schools, including Larchfield School, <a href="/wiki/Helensburgh" title="Helensburgh">Helensburgh</a>, Scotland (now <a href="/wiki/Lomond_School" title="Lomond School">Lomond School</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-greenwichpast_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greenwichpast-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 1940s, he had a long and troubled love affair with the novelist <a href="/wiki/Rosamond_Lehmann" title="Rosamond Lehmann">Rosamond Lehmann</a>, to whom he dedicated his 1943 poetry collection <i>Word Over All</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1948, Day-Lewis met actress <a href="/wiki/Jill_Balcon" title="Jill Balcon">Jill Balcon</a>, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Michael_Balcon" title="Michael Balcon">Michael Balcon</a>, at the recording of a radio programme and began an affair with her that year. He conducted simultaneous relationships with his wife Constance Mary, who lived with their two sons in <a href="/wiki/Dorset" title="Dorset">Dorset</a>, with Lehmann, who lived in <a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a>, and with Balcon. Finally he broke with his wife and Lehmann, and after his marriage was dissolved in 1951, he married Balcon, but he was no more faithful to her than he had been to his wife or Lehmann. Jill's father was deeply unhappy about the scandalous affair since she was named publicly as co-respondent in Day-Lewis' divorce. He disinherited her and cut off all relationships with her and Day-Lewis.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the Second World War, Day-Lewis worked as a publications editor in the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Information_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)">Ministry of Information</a>, an institution satirised by <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> in his dystopian <i><a href="/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four" title="Nineteen Eighty-Four">Nineteen Eighty-Four</a></i>, but equally based on Orwell's experience of the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>. During the Second World War, his work was less influenced by Auden and he was developing a more traditional style of <a href="/wiki/Lyric_poetry" title="Lyric poetry">lyricism</a>. Some critics believe that he reached his full stature as a poet in <i>Word Over All</i> (1943), when he finally distanced himself from Auden.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the war, he joined the publisher Chatto & Windus as a director and senior editor. </p><p>In 1946, Day-Lewis was a lecturer at <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge University">Cambridge University</a>, publishing his lectures in <i>The Poetic Image</i> (1947). Day-Lewis became a <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1950_Birthday_Honours" title="1950 Birthday Honours">1950 Birthday Honours</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later taught poetry at <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford</a>, where he was <a href="/wiki/Professor_of_Poetry" title="Professor of Poetry">Professor of Poetry</a> from 1951 to 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-greenwichpast_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greenwichpast-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During 1962–1963, he was the Norton Professor at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>. Day-Lewis was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968, in succession to <a href="/wiki/John_Masefield" title="John Masefield">John Masefield</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His appointment came after appointments secretary John Hewitt consulted with <a href="/wiki/Dame_Helen_Gardner" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Helen Gardner">Dame Helen Gardner</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Merton_Professor_of_English" class="mw-redirect" title="Merton Professor of English">Merton Professor of English</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a> (who stated that Day-Lewis "produced run of the mill poetry but nothing particularly outstanding") and Geoffrey Handley-Taylor, chair of the <a href="/wiki/Poetry_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Poetry Society">Poetry Society</a> (who stated that Day-Lewis was "a good administrative poet" and "a safe bet").<sup id="cite_ref-BBC2023_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC2023-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Day-Lewis was chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Arts_Council_of_Great_Britain" title="Arts Council of Great Britain">Arts Council</a> Literature Panel, vice-president of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a>, an Honorary Member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters">American Academy of Arts and Letters</a>, a Member of the Irish Academy of Letters and a <a href="/wiki/Gresham_Professor_of_Rhetoric" title="Gresham Professor of Rhetoric">Professor of Rhetoric</a> at <a href="/wiki/Gresham_College" title="Gresham College">Gresham College</a>, London. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cecil_Day_Lewis_headstone,_geograph.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Cecil_Day_Lewis_headstone%2C_geograph.jpg/200px-Cecil_Day_Lewis_headstone%2C_geograph.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Cecil_Day_Lewis_headstone%2C_geograph.jpg/300px-Cecil_Day_Lewis_headstone%2C_geograph.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Cecil_Day_Lewis_headstone%2C_geograph.jpg/400px-Cecil_Day_Lewis_headstone%2C_geograph.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Headstone of Cecil Day-Lewis in the <a href="/wiki/Stinsford" title="Stinsford">Stinsford</a> churchyard.</figcaption></figure> <p>Cecil Day-Lewis died from <a href="/wiki/Pancreatic_cancer" title="Pancreatic cancer">pancreatic cancer</a> on 22 May 1972, aged 68, at <a href="/wiki/Lemmons" title="Lemmons">Lemmons</a>, the Hertfordshire home of <a href="/wiki/Kingsley_Amis" title="Kingsley Amis">Kingsley Amis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Jane_Howard" title="Elizabeth Jane Howard">Elizabeth Jane Howard</a>, where he and his family were staying. As a great admirer of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a>, he arranged to be buried near the author's grave at St Michael's Church in <a href="/wiki/Stinsford" title="Stinsford">Stinsford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dorset" title="Dorset">Dorset</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-greenwichpast_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greenwichpast-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Day-Lewis was the father of four children.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His first two children, with Constance Mary King, were Sean Day-Lewis (3 August 1931–9 June 2022), a TV critic and writer, and Nicholas Day-Lewis, who became an engineer. His children with Balcon were <a href="/wiki/Tamasin_Day-Lewis" title="Tamasin Day-Lewis">Tamasin Day-Lewis</a>, a television chef and food critic, and <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Day-Lewis" title="Daniel Day-Lewis">Daniel Day-Lewis</a>, who became an award-winning actor.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sean Day-Lewis wrote a biography of his father, <i>C. Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life</i> (1980).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Daniel Day-Lewis donated his father's archive of poetry to the <a href="/wiki/Bodleian_Library" title="Bodleian Library">Bodleian Library</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nicholas_Blake">Nicholas Blake</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Nicholas Blake"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1935, Day-Lewis decided to increase his income from poetry by writing a detective novel, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Question_of_Proof" title="A Question of Proof">A Question of Proof</a></i> under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. He created <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Strangeways" title="Nigel Strangeways">Nigel Strangeways</a>, an amateur investigator and <a href="/wiki/Gentleman_detective" title="Gentleman detective">gentleman detective</a> who, as the nephew of an Assistant Commissioner at <a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">Scotland Yard</a>, has access to official crime investigations.<sup id="cite_ref-neglected_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-neglected-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He published nineteen further crime novels. (In the first Nigel Strangeways novel, the detective is modelled on <a href="/wiki/W._H._Auden" title="W. H. Auden">W. H. Auden</a>, but Day-Lewis developed the character as a far less extravagant and more serious figure in later novels.)<sup id="cite_ref-greenwichpast_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greenwichpast-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From the mid-1930s, Day-Lewis was able to earn his living by writing.<sup id="cite_ref-greenwichpast_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greenwichpast-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Four of the Blake novels – <i><a href="/wiki/A_Tangled_Web_(1956_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="A Tangled Web (1956 novel)">A Tangled Web</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Penknife_in_My_Heart" title="A Penknife in My Heart">A Penknife in My Heart</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Deadly_Joker" title="The Deadly Joker">The Deadly Joker</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Private_Wound" title="The Private Wound">The Private Wound</a></i> – do not feature Strangeways. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Minute_for_Murder" title="Minute for Murder">Minute for Murder</a></i> is set against the background of Day-Lewis's Second World War experiences in the Ministry of Information. <i><a href="/wiki/Head_of_a_Traveller" title="Head of a Traveller">Head of a Traveller</a></i> features as a principal character a well-known poet, frustrated and suffering writer's block, whose best poetic days are long behind him. Readers and critics have speculated whether the author is describing himself or one of his colleagues or has entirely invented the character.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_views">Political views</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political views"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In his youth and during the disruption and suffering of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>, Day-Lewis adopted communist views, becoming a member of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist Party of Great Britain</a> from 1935 to 1938. His early poetry was marked by didacticism and a preoccupation with social themes.<sup id="cite_ref-infoplease_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infoplease-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1937, he edited <i>The Mind in Chains: Socialism and the Cultural Revolution</i>. In the introduction, he supported a popular front against a "Capitalism that has no further use for culture". He explains that the title refers to <a href="/wiki/Prometheus" title="Prometheus">Prometheus</a> bound by his chains, quotes <a href="/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Shelley</a>'s preface to <i><a href="/wiki/Prometheus_Unbound_(Shelley)" title="Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)">Prometheus Unbound</a></i> and says the contributors believe that "the Promethean fire of enlightenment, which should be given for the benefit of mankind at large, is being used at present to stoke up the furnaces of private profit". The contributors were: <a href="/wiki/Rex_Warner" title="Rex Warner">Rex Warner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Upward" title="Edward Upward">Edward Upward</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Calder-Marshall" title="Arthur Calder-Marshall">Arthur Calder-Marshall</a>, Barbara Nixon, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Blunt" title="Anthony Blunt">Anthony Blunt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Bush" title="Alan Bush">Alan Bush</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Madge" title="Charles Madge">Charles Madge</a>, Alistair Brown, <a href="/wiki/J.D._Bernal" class="mw-redirect" title="J.D. Bernal">J.D. Bernal</a>, <a href="/wiki/T.A._Jackson" class="mw-redirect" title="T.A. Jackson">T.A. Jackson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edgell_Rickword" title="Edgell Rickword">Edgell Rickword</a>. </p><p>After the late 1930s, which were marked by the widespread purges, repression, and executions under <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> in the Soviet Union, Day-Lewis gradually became disillusioned with communism.<sup id="cite_ref-greenwichpast_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greenwichpast-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his autobiography, <i>The Buried Day</i> (1960), he renounces former communist views.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His detective novel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sad_Variety" title="The Sad Variety">The Sad Variety</a></i> (1964), contains a scathing portrayal of doctrinaire communists, the Soviet Union's repression of the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956" title="Hungarian Revolution of 1956">1956 Hungarian uprising</a>, and the ruthless tactics of Soviet intelligence agents. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Selected works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry">Poetry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:C._Day-Lewis_-_Blue_plaque.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/C._Day-Lewis_-_Blue_plaque.jpg/220px-C._Day-Lewis_-_Blue_plaque.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/C._Day-Lewis_-_Blue_plaque.jpg/330px-C._Day-Lewis_-_Blue_plaque.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/C._Day-Lewis_-_Blue_plaque.jpg/440px-C._Day-Lewis_-_Blue_plaque.jpg 2x" data-file-width="592" data-file-height="584" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/English_Heritage" title="English Heritage">English Heritage</a> <a href="/wiki/Blue_plaque" title="Blue plaque">blue plaque</a> of Cecil Day-Lewis in <a href="/wiki/Greenwich" title="Greenwich">Greenwich</a>, London</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><i>Transitional Poem</i> (1929)</li> <li><i>From Feathers to Iron</i> (1931)</li> <li><i>Collected Poems 1929–1933</i> (1935)</li> <li><i>A Time to Dance and Other Poems</i> (1935)</li> <li><i>Overtures to Death</i> (1938)</li> <li><i>Word Over All</i> (1943)</li> <li><i>Short Is the Time</i> (1945)</li> <li><i>Selected Poems</i> (1951)</li> <li><i>Collected Poems</i> (1954)</li> <li><i>Pegasus and Other Poems</i> (1957)</li> <li><i>The Gate, and Other Poems</i> (1962)</li> <li><i>The Whispering Roots and Other Poems</i> (1970)<sup id="cite_ref-infoplease_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infoplease-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Complete Poems of C. Day-Lewis</i> (1992)<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Editor (with <a href="/wiki/L._A._G._Strong" class="mw-redirect" title="L. A. G. Strong">L. A. G. Strong</a>): <i>A New Anthology of Modern Verse 1920–1940</i> (1941)</li> <li>Editor (with <a href="/wiki/John_Lehmann" title="John Lehmann">John Lehmann</a>): <i>The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry 1915–1955</i> (1956)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Essay_collections">Essay collections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Essay collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>A Hope for Poetry</i> (1934)<sup id="cite_ref-infoplease_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infoplease-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Poetry for You</i> (1944)</li> <li><i>The Poetic Image</i> (1947)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Translations">Translations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Georgics" title="Georgics">Georgics</a></i> (1940)<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Val%C3%A9ry" title="Paul Valéry">Paul Valéry</a>'s <i>Le Cimetière Marin</i> (1946)</li> <li>Virgil's <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i> (1952)</li> <li>Virgil's <i><a href="/wiki/Eclogues" title="Eclogues">Eclogues</a></i> (1963)<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-infoplease_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infoplease-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels_written_under_his_own_name">Novels written under his own name</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Novels written under his own name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Friendly Tree</i> (1936)</li> <li><i>Starting Point</i> (1937)</li> <li><i>Child of Misfortune</i> (1939)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels_for_children">Novels for children</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Novels for children"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Dick Willoughby (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Otterbury_Incident" title="The Otterbury Incident">The Otterbury Incident</a></i> (1948)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels_written_as_Nicholas_Blake">Novels written as Nicholas Blake</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Novels written as Nicholas Blake"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nigel_Strangeways"><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Strangeways" title="Nigel Strangeways">Nigel Strangeways</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Nigel Strangeways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Question_of_Proof" title="A Question of Proof">A Question of Proof</a></i> (1935); First US edition by Harper and Brothers (1935)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thou_Shell_of_Death" title="Thou Shell of Death">Thou Shell of Death</a></i> (1936; First US edition by Harper and Brothers published as <i>Shell of Death</i>) (1936)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/There%27s_Trouble_Brewing" title="There's Trouble Brewing">There's Trouble Brewing</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Beast_Must_Die_(novel)" title="The Beast Must Die (novel)">The Beast Must Die</a></i> (1938), adapted for the cinema by <a href="/wiki/Rom%C3%A1n_Vi%C3%B1oly_Barreto" title="Román Viñoly Barreto">Román Viñoly Barreto</a> in Argentina (1952) and by <a href="/wiki/Claude_Chabrol" title="Claude Chabrol">Claude Chabrol</a> in France (1969), and in Britain in 2021 as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Beast_Must_Die_(TV_series)" title="The Beast Must Die (TV series)">The Beast Must Die</a></i> television series.</li> <li><i>The Smiler with the Knife</i> (1939). Serialised <i><a href="/wiki/News_Chronicle" title="News Chronicle">News Chronicle</a></i>, 1939</li> <li><i>Malice in Wonderland</i> (1940; also published as <i>Murder with Malice</i>. U.S. title: <i>The Summer Camp Mystery</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Case_of_the_Abominable_Snowman" title="The Case of the Abominable Snowman">The Case of the Abominable Snowman</a></i> (1941; also published as <i>The Corpse in the Snowman</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Minute_for_Murder" title="Minute for Murder">Minute for Murder</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Head_of_a_Traveller" title="Head of a Traveller">Head of a Traveller</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dreadful_Hollow" title="The Dreadful Hollow">The Dreadful Hollow</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Whisper_in_the_Gloom" title="The Whisper in the Gloom">The Whisper in the Gloom</a></i> (1954; also published as <i>Catch and Kill</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/End_of_Chapter" title="End of Chapter">End of Chapter</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Widow%27s_Cruise" title="The Widow's Cruise">The Widow's Cruise</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Worm_of_Death" title="The Worm of Death">The Worm of Death</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sad_Variety" title="The Sad Variety">The Sad Variety</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Morning_after_Death" title="The Morning after Death">The Morning after Death</a></i> (1966)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-series_novels">Non-series novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Non-series novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Tangled_Web_(1956_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="A Tangled Web (1956 novel)">A Tangled Web</a></i> (1956; also published as <i>Death and Daisy Bland</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Penknife_in_My_Heart" title="A Penknife in My Heart">A Penknife in My Heart</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Deadly_Joker" title="The Deadly Joker">The Deadly Joker</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Private_Wound" title="The Private Wound">The Private Wound</a></i> (1968)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short_stories">Short stories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Short stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"A Slice of Bad Luck" (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Bystander" class="mw-redirect" title="The Bystander">The Bystander</a></i>, 1 December 1935. Reprinted in <i>Detection Medley</i>, ed. John Rhode [Hutchinson, 1939]. Also published as "The Assassin's Club". Reprinted in <i>Murder by the Book</i>, ed. Martin Edwards, 2021)</li> <li>"Mr Prendergast and the Orange" (<i>Sunday Dispatch</i>, 27 March 1938. Reprinted in <i>Bodies from the Library</i>, Volume 3, ed. Tony Medawar [2020]. Also published as "Conscience Money".)</li> <li>"It Fell to Earth" (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Strand_Magazine" title="The Strand Magazine">The Strand Magazine</a></i>, June 1944. Also published as "Long Shot". Reprinted in <i>Murder at the Manor</i>, ed. Martin Edwards, 2016)</li> <li>"The Snow Line" (<i>The Strand Magazine</i>, February 1949. Also published as "A Study in White" and "A Problem in White". Reprinted in <i>Silent Night</i>, ed. Martin Edwards, 2015)</li> <li>"Sometimes the Blind See the Clearest" (<i><a href="/wiki/Evening_Standard" title="Evening Standard">Evening Standard</a></i>, 18 March 1963. Also published as "Sometimes the Blind". Reprinted in <i>The Long Arm of the Law</i>, ed. Martin Edwards, 2017)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio_plays">Radio plays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Radio plays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Calling James Braithwaite</i>. BBC Home Service, 20 and 22 July 1940. (Published in <i>Bodies from the Library</i>, Volume 1, edited by Tony Medawar [2018].)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Autobiography">Autobiography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Autobiography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Buried Day</i> (1960)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Sean Day-Lewis, <i>Cecil Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life</i> (1980)</li> <li>Peter Stanford, <i>C. Day-Lewis: A Life</i> (2007) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://newcriterion.com/issues/2007/10/not-saying-anything">review</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Quill_and_ink.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Quill_and_ink.svg/28px-Quill_and_ink.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Quill_and_ink.svg/42px-Quill_and_ink.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Quill_and_ink.svg/56px-Quill_and_ink.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="152" data-file-height="152" /></a></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Poetry" title="Portal:Poetry">Poetry portal</a></span></li><li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Tom_Sawyer_1876_frontispiece.jpg/20px-Tom_Sawyer_1876_frontispiece.jpg" decoding="async" width="20" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Tom_Sawyer_1876_frontispiece.jpg/30px-Tom_Sawyer_1876_frontispiece.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Tom_Sawyer_1876_frontispiece.jpg/41px-Tom_Sawyer_1876_frontispiece.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1115" data-file-height="1536" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Children%27s_literature" title="Portal:Children's literature">Children's literature portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li>List of <a href="/wiki/Gresham_Professor_of_Rhetoric" title="Gresham Professor of Rhetoric">Gresham Professors of Rhetoric</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Day-Lewis&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Leo_McKinstry" title="Leo McKinstry">McKinstry, Leo</a>, <i>Operation Sealion: How Britain Crushed the German War Machine's Dreams of Invasion in 1940</i>. 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