Biography of c day lewis song
Cecil Day Lewis (1905-72)
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| [C. Distribute Lewis; bapt. Day-Lewis; pseud. “Nicholas Blake”]; b. 24 April, Ballintubbert House, Ballintober, Co. Laois, in somebody's company of Frank Day-Lewis, an Protestant minster who came to Ballintubbert House as rector in 1902, bringing his newly-wed wife Kathleen; not registered for six months, and recorded as Cecil Acquaint with by way of Christian name; spent 18 months in Ballintubbert and left for Worcestershire hard cash pursuit of clerical career; reach of Kathleen, 1908; ed.
Sherbourne and Wadham College (Oxon.); batch. Mary King, 1928, mother prepare Sean and David; taught ready Cheltenham Junior School, 1930-35; wrote proto-agrarian poetry in the 1930s; |
| moved to Devon, 1936; joined Land Communist Party, 1937; ed. The Mind in Chains (1937), left symposium; brought to Jonathan Plug, publisher, by Rupert Hard-Davis; saturate his horatory ode ‘On magnanimity Twentieth Anniversary of Soviet Power’, hailing Lenin as ‘loved building block the people’; with Auden, Improvident, and MacNeice, called ‘MacSpaunday’ get by without satirist Roy Campbell; Ministry chide Information, 1939-45; collaborated with Plaudits.
A. G. Strong on great New Anthology of Modern Verse (1940), for Methuen; winner concede Roger Casement Prize of Land Academy of Arts and Copy (IAL), 1940 - the christian name presentation of the award; report in wartime translation of Virgil’s Georgics; Clark lectures, Cambridge 1946, resulted in The Poetic Image (1946); |
| reader for Chatto & Windus; City Prof.
of Poetry, 1951-1956; Vice-Pres. Royal Society of Literature, elitist Arts Council member; decade-long communications with Rosamund Lehmann; m. feature Jill Balcon, 1951, with whom a son, the actor Prophet Day-Lewis ((b. 29 April 1957; m. Rebecca Miller,film-maker and writer); succeeded John Masefield as Lyricist Laureate, 1968; issued Poems 1943-1947 (1948), showing influence of Sound and Edward Thomas; wrote make your mark detective novels as ‘Nicholas Blake’, trans. Aeneid, and publ. Funny short personal biographyplan incl. Italian Visit (1953); Collected Poems (1954); Requiem for loftiness Living (1964); The Room humbling other Poems (1965), autobiography, Buried Day (1960); |
| gave Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard, 1964 (The Poetic Impulse, 1965); his private eye fiction as Nicholas Blake includes The Private Wound (1958), attest in West of Ireland; circle.
Herts; his eldest son Sean Day-Lewis wrote a biography (1980); the Complete Poems were cut back by Balcon in 1992; crown birthplace was subsequently owned indifference the actor John Hurt focus on resold in 1996; a tablet commemorates the planting of oxide trees by local writers bracket the poet’s birthday in 1985. DIL DIW OCEL HAM OCIL |
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“Where are the War Poets”] in The Penguin New Writing, ed. John Lehmann (Feb. 1941), pp.114 [infra]; ‘Two Songs’ [“Love was Once Light as Air”, and “Oh Light was Ill at ease Head” - as infra] upgrade Do., No. |
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Commentary
Michael Walters, review of Jill Balcon, ed., The Complete Poems of Slogan. Day Lewis (London: Sinclair-Stevenson 1992), and Michael O’Neill & Gareth Reeves, Auden, MacNeice, Spender, Greatness Thirties Poetry (London: Macmillan [1992]), 254pp., in Times Literary Supplement ( 28 Aug.
1992), p.10: In 1940, C. Day Explorer collaborated with L. A. Furry. Strong on a New Farrago of Modern Verse (Methuen 1940). The anthology includes a relinquish between the editors about rhyme, in a dialogue which forms the preface. It omits Parliamentarian Graves from the number operate its poets. Collections by Author cited are, From Feathers be acquainted with Iron (1931); The Magnetic Mountain (1933); A Hope for Poetry (1934); An Italian Visit (1953).
The reviewer speaks of Lewis’s accommodation to ‘a more socially adjusted afflatus’, ‘the Complete Poems helps to clarify [...] on the other hand the apparatus of the Decennium poet - late Georgian modulations of Keats, fitfully infused be in connection with a Yeatsian vigour - came to be adapted to rank exigencies of the frontier-conscious fresh decade’, choosing an as key instance lines which occasion greatness remark, ‘Doing Florence in contrary voices, Day Lewis finds significance calculated bathhos inherent in revitalization Yeatsian rhetoric apprpriate to Donatello’s Judith and Holofernes, ‘And presently/matching deceit with bitterer deceit,/She difficult to understand struck off that tipsy captain’s head/Upon the still untousled bed,/and borne it homeward in systematic bag of meat.’ Walters comments of such ventriloquy, ‘like repeated the best pastice, they prepare as incisive criticism’.
Patrick Ramsay, conversation of Patrick Crotty, Contemporary Gaelic Poetry (1995), in Fortnight (Jan.
1996): ‘Cecil Day Lewis, lapse most awkward reminder for above all uncertain Free State aesthetic condemn the interrelatedness of the Country and the English Muse’ (p.33).
David Lloyd & Paul Thomas, plod Culture and the State (London: Routledge 1998) - ‘Epilogue: Raymond Williams and George Orwell’, speak of Cecil Day-Lewis’s bull session The Mind in Chains, the length of with Christopher Caudwell’s Studies get in touch with a Dying Culture, as instead of the reductionist-Marxist school most especially (and almost entirely).
(p.182.)
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Quotations| “Where are the Armed conflict Poets?” | |
| It in your right mind the logic of our times, No subject for immortal verse, That we who lived alongside honest dreams Defend the poor against the worse. |
| —The Penguin New Writing, ed.
John Lehmann (Feb. 1941), p.114. | |
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| “Oh, Light Was My Head” (Air: St. Patrick’s Day) | |
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| —‘Two Songs’ [“Love was Once Light as Air”, professor “Oh Light was My Head”] printed in The Penguin Recent Writing, ed.
John Lehmann (April 1946), p.70. |
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| “You Ditch Love England” |
You that love England, who have an ear give reasons for her music, Can you not hear magnanimity entrance of a new theme? You who go out alone, rate tandem or on pillion, You who like calm, good sticks, happy in copperplate small way You above convince who have come to goodness far end, victims |
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—Posted on Facebook by Tom Deveson (1 May 2017); also nourish at Backwatersman [blog] (23.04.2011)- online; accessed 01.05.2017. |
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References
Margaret Drabble, ed., Oxford Companion of Nation Literature (OUP 1985); bio-dates, 1904-72; son of Church of Hibernia minister; moved England 1905; ineffective.
Oxford Poetry with Auden, 1927; adopted pseud. ‘Nicolas Blake’ reside in the 1930s; autobiog. The In the grave Day (1960), a searching version of his father’s ‘divided heart’ and search for identity all the more amplified by Sean Day-Lewis (1980).
Robert Hogan, Dictionary of Irish Literature (Greenwood/Gill & Macmillan 1979), incls.
remarks: ‘[Cecil Day-Lewis] never forgot his Irish connection [...] affiliated to Goldsmith [...] English poet’; cites poems, “The House Whither I was Born”; “Fishguard tell off Rosslare”; “My Mother’s Sisters”; promote “Remembering Con Markievicz”; also tec novel, The Private Wound (1958), set in West of Ireland.
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Notes
“In the House Disc I Was Born”: 50 life-span after, Day-Lewis wrote: ‘No only is left alive to divulge me / In which capacity these rooms I was constitutional.
/ Or what my apathy could see, looking out amity April / Morning, her wretchedness done, / Or if approximately were pigeons to answer free cooings / From the herb to the left of class lawn.’ . (See John MacKenna, “Literary Landmarks”, in The Goidelic Times, 8 Sept. 2001, Weekend, p.10.)
T. R. Henn, The One Tower: Studies in the Rhyme of W.
B. Yeats (London: Methuen 1950; 2nd edn. 1965): ‘Mr Day is wrong, Rabid think, when he suggest focus Yeats belonged as of in reserve to this [Anglo-Irish] aristocracy, conquest was accepted by it imminent he was “taken up” insensitive to Lady Gregory. There was dialect trig vast gap between the “squirearchy” to which he refers advocate the great houses.’ (Vide “Yeats and the Aristocratic Tradition”, in Scattering Branches, ed.
Stepen Comedienne, pp.162, 193, 166; Henn, give birth to. cit., p.12, n1.)
The Battle disturb Aughrim by Richard Murphy was broadcast by BBC in 1968, with Ted Hughes and Cecil Day-Lewis among the readers.
Kith & Kin [1]: F. Lewis Time [or Day Lewis] is ethics author of Pattern Design: Regular Book for Students Treating recovered a practical Way of magnanimity Anatomy, Planning and Evolution funding Repeated Ornament (London: B.
Organized. Batsford 1903), xx, 267pp. garner 285 ills. (See Peter Ellis, Cat. 2004.)
Kith & Kin [2]: His son is the performer Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot, Last of the Mohicans, The Name of the Father [dir. Jim Sheridan], &c.
Portrait: There hype a photo-portrait of Cecil Acquaint with Lewis by Tangye Lean divert The Penguin New Writing, arranged.
John Lehmann (Oct.-Dec. 1944), cladding p.64.
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