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Cecil Day Lewis

2012-01-24T08:35:16Z

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27 April 1904 - 22 May 1972. Anglo-Irish writer and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968, succeeding [[John Masefield]]. He is also known under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake with which he published several mystery and detective novels.

'''Childhood & Education'''

Cecil Day-Lewis was born in Ballintubber, Queen's County (now County Laois), Ireland, but the Day-Lewis family moved to England in 1906. His mother died of cancer in 1908. He attended prep school in London but then attended a boarding school in Dorset. In October 1923 he went up to Wadham College, Oxford.

'''Life & Work'''

As he dedicated himself to poetry and soon published his first volume of poetry ''Beechen Vigil'' in 1925. In 1927, his final year of college, he met fellow student [[W.H. Auden]] and helped him to edit ''Oxford Poetry 1927''.

Cecil Day-Lewis made his reputation in the 1930s as one of the “Oxford Poets” and “Poets of the Thirties” [where do these quotes come from??] - alongside with Auden, [[Stephen Spender]], [[Louis MacNeice]] and others.
He joined the Communist party in the 1930s, but quit the party in 1939 since he was disenchanted with revolutionary and radical left-wing ideas.

During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information. His own work was now no longer influenced by his friend W.H. Auden and he distanced himself from Auden with the publications of ''Word Over All'' in 1943 (http://wwp.greenwichpast.com/vip/writers/day-lewis.htm).
In 1946 he worked as a lecturer at Cambridge University and was professor of Poetry in Oxford from 1951 to 1956.

Cecil Day-Lewis was married twice. In 1928 he married Mary with whom he had two children but divorced her in 1950. After his divorce he married actress Jill Bacon. They had two children, one of them being the Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis.

Cecil Day-Lewis died of cancer on May 22, 1972 with his family and friends around him.

'''Sources'''

http://wwp.greenwichpast.com/vip/writers/day-lewis.htm

http://www.cday-lewis.co.uk/#/biography/

Southworth, James G. ''Sowing the Sping: Studies in British Poets from Hopkins to MacNeice''. Hallendale: New World Book, 1968.

'''Further Reading'''

For a full list of his works see: [[: http://www.cday-lewis.co.uk/#/bibliography/4525061837]]

Gelpi, Albert. ''Living in TIme: The Poetry of C. Day Lewis''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Stanford, Peter: ''C Day-Lewis. A Life''. London: Continuum. 2007.

Cecil Day Lewis

2012-01-17T17:46:49Z

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Cecil Day-Lewis (27th April 1904 - 22nd May, 1972) was an Anglo-Irish writer and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968, succeeding John Masefield. He is also known under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake with which he published several mystery and detective novels.

'''Childhood & Education'''

He was born in Ballintubber, Queen's County (now County Laois), Ireland, but the Day-Lewis family moved to England in 1906. His mother died of cancer in 1908. He attended prep school in London but then attended a boarding school in Dorset. In October 1923 he went up to Wadham College, Oxford.

'''Life & Work'''

As he dedicated himself to poetry and he soon published his first volume of poetry “Beechen Vigil” in 1925. In 1927, his final year of college, he met fellow student W.H. Auden and helped him to edit ''Oxford Poetry 1927''.

Cecil Day-Lewis made his reputation in the 1930s as one of the “''Oxford Poets''” and “''Poets of the Thirties''” - alongside with Auden, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice and others, also known as “''MacSpaunday''” and “''Auden Group''”.
He also joined the Communist party in the 1930s, but quit the party in 1939 since he was disenchanted with revolutionary and radical left-wing ideas.
During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information. His own work was now no longer influenced by his friend W.H. Auden and distanced himself from Auden with the publications of “Word Over All” in 1943[http://wwp.greenwichpast.com/vip/writers/day-lewis.htm], judged my many as his greatest work.
In 1946 he worked as a lecturer at Camebridge University and was later a professor of Poetry in Oxford himself in 1951-1956.

Cecil Day-Lewis was married twice. In 1928 he married Mary with whom he had two children but divorced her in 1950. After his divorce from Mary he married actress Jill Bacon. They had two children, one of them being the Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
He died of cancer on May 22, 1972 with his family and friends around him.

'''Sources'''

http://wwp.greenwichpast.com/vip/writers/day-lewis.htm

http://www.cday-lewis.co.uk/#/biography/

Southworth, James G. Sowing the Sping: Studies in British Poets from Hopkins to MacNeice. Hallendale: New World Book, 1968.

'''Further Reading'''

for a full list of his works see: [[: http://www.cday-lewis.co.uk/#/bibliography/4525061837]]

Gelpi, Albert. Living in TIme: The Poetry of C. Day Lewis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Stanford, Peter: C Day-Lewis. A Life. London: Continuum. 2007.

Cecil Day Lewis

2012-01-17T12:03:34Z

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Cecil Day-Lewis CBE (*27 April in 1904, died 22 May, 1972) was an Anglo-Irish writer and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968, succeeding John Masefield. He is also known under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake with which he published several mystery and detective novels.

'''Childhood & Education'''

He was born in Ballintubber, Queen's County (now County Laois), Ireland, but the Day-Lewis family moved to England in 1906. His mother died of cancer in 1908. He attended prep school in London but then attended a boarding school in Dorset. In October 1923 he went up to Wadham College, Oxford.

'''Life & Work'''

As he dedicated himself to poetry and he soon published his first volume of poetry “Beechen Vigil” in 1925. In 1927, his final year of college, he met fellow student W.H. Auden and helped him to edit ''Oxford Poetry 1927''.

Cecil Day-Lewis made his reputation in the 1930s as one of the “''Oxford Poets''” and “''Poets of the Thirties''” - alongside with Auden, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice and others, also known as “''MacSpaunday''” and “''Auden Group''”.
He also joined the Communist party in the 1930s, but quit the party in 1939 since he was disenchanted with revolutionary and radical left-wing ideas.
During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information. His own work was now no longer influenced by his friend W.H. Auden and distanced himself from Auden with the publications of “Word Over All” in 1943[http://wwp.greenwichpast.com/vip/writers/day-lewis.htm], judged my many as his greatest work.
In 1946 he worked as a lecturer at Camebridge University and was later a professor of Poetry in Oxford himself in 1951-1956.

Cecil Day-Lewis was married twice. In 1928 he married Mary with whom he had two children but divorced her in 1950. After his divorce from Mary he married actress Jill Bacon. They had two children, one of them being the Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
He died of cancer on May 22, 1972 with his family and friends around him.

'''Works (incomplete list)'''

'''Sources'''

http://wwp.greenwichpast.com/vip/writers/day-lewis.htm

http://www.cday-lewis.co.uk/#/biography/

Southworth, James G. Sowing the Sping: Studies in British Poets from Hopkins to MacNeice. Hallendale: New World Book, 1968.

'''Further Reading'''

Cecil Day Lewis

2012-01-17T12:03:25Z

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Cecil Day Lewis

2012-01-17T12:03:11Z

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Cecil Day Lewis

2012-01-17T12:02:18Z

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Cecil Day-Lewis CBE (*27 April in 1904, died 22 May, 1972) was an Anglo-Irish writer and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968, succeeding John Masefield. He is also known under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake with which he published several mystery and detective novels.

'''Childhood & Education'''

He was born in Ballintubber, Queen's County (now County Laois), Ireland, but the Day-Lewis family moved to England in 1906. His mother died of cancer in 1908. He attended prep school in London but then attended a boarding school in Dorset. In October 1923 he went up to Wadham College, Oxford.

'''Life & Work'''

As he dedicated himself to poetry and he soon published his first volume of poetry “Beechen Vigil” in 1925. In 1927, his final year of college, he met fellow student W.H. Auden and helped him to edit ''Oxford Poetry 1927''.

Cecil Day-Lewis made his reputation in the 1930s as one of the “''Oxford Poets''” and “''Poets of the Thirties''” - alongside with Auden, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice and others, also known as “''MacSpaunday''” and “''Auden Group''”.
He also joined the Communist party in the 1930s, but quit the party in 1939 since he was disenchanted with revolutionary and radical left-wing ideas.
During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information. His own work was now no longer influenced by his friend W.H. Auden and distanced himself from Auden with the publications of “Word Over All” in 1943[http://wwp.greenwichpast.com/vip/writers/day-lewis.htm], judged my many as his greatest work.
In 1946 he worked as a lecturer at Camebridge University and was later a professor of Poetry in Oxford himself in 1951-1956.

Cecil Day-Lewis was married twice. In 1928 he married Mary with whom he had two children but divorced her in 1950. After his divorce from Mary he married actress Jill Bacon. They had two children, one of them being the Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
He died of cancer on May 22, 1972 with his family and friends around him.

'''Works'''

'''Sources'''

http://wwp.greenwichpast.com/vip/writers/day-lewis.htm

http://www.cday-lewis.co.uk/#/biography/

Southworth, James G. Sowing the Sping: Studies in British Poets from Hopkins to MacNeice. Hallendale: New World Book, 1968.

Cecil Day Lewis

2012-01-17T12:00:22Z

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Cecil Day-Lewis CBE (*27 April in 1904, died 22 May, 1972) was an Anglo-Irish writer and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968, succeeding John Masefield. He is also known under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake with which he published several mystery and detective novels.

'''Childhood & Education'''

He was born in Ballintubber, Queen's County (now County Laois), Ireland, but the Day-Lewis family moved to England in 1906. His mother died of cancer in 1908. He attended prep school in London but then attended a boarding school in Dorset. In October 1923 he went up to Wadham College, Oxford.

'''Life & Work'''

As he dedicated himself to poetry and he soon published his first volume of poetry “Beechen Vigil” in 1925. In 1927, his final year of college, he met fellow student W.H. Auden and helped him to edit ''Oxford Poetry 1927''.

Cecil Day-Lewis made his reputation in the 1930s as one of the “''Oxford Poets''” and “''Poets of the Thirties''” - alongside with Auden, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice and others, also known as “''MacSpaunday''” and “''Auden Group''”.
He also joined the Communist party in the 1930s, but quit the party in 1939 since he was disenchanted with revolutionary and radical left-wing ideas.
During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information. His own work was now no longer influenced by his friend W.H. Auden and distanced himself from Auden with the publications of “Word Over All” in 1943[http://wwp.greenwichpast.com/vip/writers/day-lewis.htm], judged my many as his greatest work.
In 1946 he worked as a lecturer at Camebridge University and was later a professor of Poetry in Oxford himself in 1951-1956.

Cecil Day-Lewis was married twice. In 1928 he married Mary with whom he had two children but divorced her in 1950. After his divorce from Mary he married actress Jill Bacon. They had two children, one of them being the Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
He died of cancer on May 22, 1972 with his family and friends around him.

'''Style'''

'''Works'''

'''Sources'''

http://wwp.greenwichpast.com/vip/writers/day-lewis.htm

http://www.cday-lewis.co.uk/#/biography/

Southworth, James G. Sowing the Sping: Studies in British Poets from Hopkins to MacNeice. Hallendale: New World Book, 1968.

Cecil Day Lewis

2012-01-17T11:58:13Z

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Cecil Day-Lewis CBE (*27 April in 1904, died 22 May, 1972) was an Anglo-Irish writer and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968, succeeding John Masefield. He is also known under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake with which he published several mystery and detective novels.

'''Childhood & Education'''

He was born in Ballintubber, Queen's County (now County Laois), Ireland, but the Day-Lewis family moved to England in 1906. His mother died of cancer in 1908. He attended prep school in London but then attended a boarding school in Dorset. In October 1923 he went up to Wadham College, Oxford.

'''Life & Work'''

As he dedicated himself to poetry and he soon published his first volume of poetry “Beechen Vigil” in 1925. In 1927, his final year of college, he met fellow student W.H. Auden and helped him to edit ''Oxford Poetry 1927''.

Cecil Day-Lewis made his reputation in the 1930s as one of the “''Oxford Poets''” and “''Poets of the Thirties''” - alongside with Auden, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice and others, also known as “''MacSpaunday''” and “''Auden Group''”.
He also joined the Communist party in the 1930s, but quit the party in 1939 since he was disenchanted with revolutionary and radical left-wing ideas.
During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information. His own work was now no longer influenced by his friend W.H. Auden and distanced himself from Auden with the publications of “Word Over All” in 1943[http://wwp.greenwichpast.com/vip/writers/day-lewis.htm], judged my many as his greatest work.
In 1946 he worked as a lecturer at Camebridge University and was later a professor of Poetry in Oxford himself in 1951-1956.

Cecil Day-Lewis was married twice. In 1928 he married Mary with whom he had two children but divorced her in 1950. After his divorce from Mary he married actress Jill Bacon. They had two children, one of them being the Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
He died of cancer on May 22, 1972 with his family and friends around him.

'''Style'''

'''Sources'''

http://wwp.greenwichpast.com/vip/writers/day-lewis.htm

http://www.cday-lewis.co.uk/#/biography/

Southworth, James G. Sowing the Sping: Studies in British Poets from Hopkins to MacNeice. Hallendale: New World Book, 1968.

Cecil Day Lewis

2012-01-17T11:53:14Z

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Cecil Day Lewis

2012-01-16T09:45:02Z

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(27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972)

The Waves

2011-12-06T18:22:27Z

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The Waves was published in 1931 and is considered Virginia Woolf's most difficult and high modernist text. It his her third and last experimental novel after To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway.

The Waves is highly stylised and poetical: It consists of soliloquies of the six characters Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis and alternates with descriptive pastoral interludes, written in italics. These passages describe the impression of the diurnal progress of the sun on a seascape, its play of light, shadow and colour. In the soliloquies one of the characters reflects about their life spent together from childhood to maternity. A seventh character Percival who died in youth forms hereby a voiceless center. In general the novel describes their life-long and agonizing introspection.
In this way Woolf examines different concepts of individuality and the self, as well as diverse concept of community. In her diary Woolf wrote that that the six were not meant to be separate "characters" at all: “The six characters were supposed to be one, I'm getting old myself ... and I come to feel more and more how difficult it is to collect onseself into one Virginia”. So each character can be seen as individual in itself but they also compose central consciousness together.

The novel is difficult to categorise, as Woolf herself conceives it as “a new kind of play … prose yet poetry; a novel and a play” (p.68). It is often called a Künstlerroman because it is dense with literary allusions and many recent critics have praised the novel's eloquent silence, symbolic university and sense of cosmic unity.

'''Sources:'''

Goldman, Jane. The Cambridge Introduction to Virgina Woolf. Camebridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Lee, Hermoine. Virginia Woolf. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.

'''Suggested further reading:'''

Beer, Gillian. Virgina Woolf: The Common Ground. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996.

Warner, Eric. Virginia Woolf: The Waves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

The Waves

2011-12-06T18:22:15Z

Bibik:

The Waves was published in 1931 and is considered Virginia Woolf's most difficult and high modernist text. It his her third and last experimental novel after To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway.

The Waves is highly stylised and poetical: It consists of soliloquies of the six characters Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis and alternates with descriptive pastoral interludes, written in italics. These passages describe the impression of the diurnal progress of the sun on a seascape, its play of light, shadow and colour. In the soliloquies one of the characters reflects about their life spent together from childhood to maternity. A seventh character Percival who died in youth forms hereby a voiceless center. In general the novel describes their life-long and agonizing introspection.
In this way Woolf examines different concepts of individuality and the self, as well as diverse concept of community. In her diary Woolf wrote that that the six were not meant to be separate "characters" at all: “The six characters were supposed to be one, I'm getting old myself ... and I come to feel more and more how difficult it is to collect onseself into one Virginia”. So each character can be seen as individual in itself but they also compose central consciousness together.

The novel is difficult to categorise, as Woolf herself conceives it as “a new kind of play … prose yet poetry; a novel and a play” (p.68). It is often called a Künstlerroman because it is dense with literary allusions and many recent critics have praised the novel's eloquent silence, symbolic university and sense of cosmic unity.

'''Sources:'''
Goldman, Jane. The Cambridge Introduction to Virgina Woolf. Camebridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Lee, Hermoine. Virginia Woolf. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.

'''Suggested further reading:'''
Beer, Gillian. Virgina Woolf: The Common Ground. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996.

Warner, Eric. Virginia Woolf: The Waves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

The Waves

2011-12-06T18:20:09Z

Bibik:

The Waves was published in 1931 and is considered Virginia Woolf's most difficult and high modernist text. It his her third and last experimental novel after To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway.

The Waves is highly stylised and poetical: It consists of soliloquies of the six characters Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis and alternates with descriptive pastoral interludes written in italics. These passages describe the impression of the diurnal progress of the sun on a seascape, its play of light, shadow and colour. In the soliloquies one of the characters reflects about their life spent together from childhood to maternity. A seventh character Percival who died in youth forms hereby a voiceless center. In general the novel describes their life-long and agonizing introspection.
In this way Woolf examines different concepts of individuality and the self, as well as diverse concept of community. In her diary Woolf wrote that that the six were not meant to be separate "characters" at all: “The six characters were supposed to be one, I'm getting old myself ... and I come to feel more and more how difficult it is to collect onseself into one Virginia”. So each character can be seen as individual in itself but they also compose central consciousness together.
The novel is difficult to categorise, as Woolf herself conceives it as “a new kind of play … prose yet poetry; a novel and a play” (p.68). It is often called a Künstlerroman because it is dense with literary allusions and many recent critics have praised the novel's eloquent silence, symbolic university and sense of cosmic unity.

Sources:
Goldman, Jane. The Cambridge Introduction to Virgina Woolf. Camebridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Lee, Hermoine. Virginia Woolf. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.

Suggested further reading:
Beer, Gillian. Virgina Woolf: The Common Ground. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996.
Warner, Eric. Virginia Woolf: The Waves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

The Waves

2011-12-06T18:19:23Z

Bibik:

The Waves was published in 1931 and is considered Virginia Woolf's most difficult and high modernist text. It his her third and last experimental novel after To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway.
The Waves is highly stylised and poetical: It consists of soliloquies of the six characters Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis and alternates with descriptive pastoral interludes written in italics. These passages describe the impression of the diurnal progress of the sun on a seascape, its play of light, shadow and colour. In the soliloquies one of the characters reflects about their life spent together from childhood to maternity. A seventh character Percival who died in youth forms hereby a voiceless center. In general the novel describes their life-long and agonizing introspection.
In this way Woolf examines different concepts of individuality and the self, as well as diverse concept of community. In her diary Woolf wrote that that the six were not meant to be separate "characters" at all: “The six characters were supposed to be one, I'm getting old myself ... and I come to feel more and more how difficult it is to collect onseself into one Virginia”. So each character can be seen as individual in itself but they also compose central consciousness together.
The novel is difficult to categorise, as Woolf herself conceives it as “a new kind of play … prose yet poetry; a novel and a play” (p.68). It is often called a Künstlerroman because it is dense with literary allusions and many recent critics have praised the novel's eloquent silence, symbolic university and sense of cosmic unity.

Sources:
Goldman, Jane. The Cambridge Introduction to Virgina Woolf. Camebridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Lee, Hermoine. Virginia Woolf. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.

Suggested further reading:
Beer, Gillian. Virgina Woolf: The Common Ground. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996.
Warner, Eric. Virginia Woolf: The Waves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

The Waves

2011-11-30T12:29:32Z

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Novel by Virgina Woolf, first published in 1931. It is known to be Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel.