Cecil Day-Lewis

Standard Name: Day-Lewis, Cecil
Used Form: Cecil Day Lewis
Used Form: C. Day Lewis
Used Form: C. Day-Lewis

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosamond Lehmann
The novel exhibits the resignation, bitterness, and exhaustion of the times (and possibly the ending of Lehmann's relationship with C. Day-Lewis ). It also contains humour which comes close to madness in the face of...
Textual Production Rosamond Lehmann
Together, RL and Cecil Day Lewis launched and edited a literary magazine called Orion, which kept afloat for four issues.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
240
Textual Production Rosamond Lehmann
RL wrote verse throughout her life. Much of it is personal and occasional. Her abandonment by her lover, C. Day-Lewis , produced one melancholy lament and one bitter little satirical dirge.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
291, 317
She wrote...
Textual Production W. H. Auden
While an undergraduate at Oxford (from October 1925) he discovered T. S. Eliot , and was for a while obsessively modernist, as he had previously been traditional in the style of Thomas Hardy . He...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
Under her editorship the list included Frances Cornford , Joan Adeney Easdale , Ida Graves , Vita Sackville-West , Margaret Thomas (as editor), Julian Bell , Cecil Day-Lewis , John Lehmann , F. L. Lucas
Textual Production Phyllis Bentley
PB published her autobiography, calling it "O Dreams, O Destinations", which is quoted from Words over All by Cecil Day Lewis .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research.
23
Textual Production Storm Jameson
Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
524
The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
This vintage volume was edited by a group of authors including Rosamond Lehmann and Cecil Day Lewis .
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
215
EB 's essay (in which sometimes aphoristic notes are lightly linked) was reprinted in her posthumous Pictures and Conversations.
Textual Production Lilian Bowes Lyon
LBL published her fourth book of verse, Evening in Stepney, and Other Poems, ranked by Cecil Day-Lewis as her first volume of consistently mature work.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Day-Lewis, Cecil, and Lilian Bowes Lyon. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Jonathan Cape, pp. 11-16.
11
Textual Production Lilian Bowes Lyon
In the last year of her life LBL published her Collected Poems, with an introduction by Cecil Day-Lewis .
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge.
42n1
Textual Features Lilian Bowes Lyon
Day-Lewis heard an echo of Gerard Manley Hopkins in some of her compounds, like oat-field's silver-water sail.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge.
40
This collection reveals the strands of imagery and thematic concerns that bind her work together. The last...
Textual Features Lilian Bowes Lyon
Cecil Day Lewis takes these to represent her middle period, side-tracked from her true bent by the compelling mannerisms of Hopkins and the more public preoccupations of the 'thirties, and therefore showing a sense of...
Residence Rosamond Lehmann
This became Cecil Day-Lewis 's second home, and Lehmann adapted the barn to make a studio for her sister Beatrix .
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
248
Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang.
136
Residence Rosamond Lehmann
The year after her devastating parting from Cecil Day-Lewis , RL sold her manor house at Long Wittenham, and moved to a flat at 70 Eaton Square in London.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
299
Reception Muriel Spark
MS attended a party at the Ritz given by Carl H. Pforzheimer for people who had written about the Shelleys, where she met Cecil Day Lewis and Edmund Blunden .
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable.
201

Timeline

January 1933: The first number appeared of the periodical...

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January 1933

The first number appeared of the periodicalNew Verse, edited by Geoffrey Grigson ; it ran until May 1939.

February 1936: The awesome trio of political theorist Harold...

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February 1936

The awesome trio
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited.
of political theorist Harold Laski , publisher Victor Gollancz , and writer and Labour MP John Strachey established the Left Book Club (LBC) .

: The second number of Orion. A Miscellany...

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Autumn1945

The second number of Orion. A Miscellany appeared: Rosamond Lehmann was one of the editors, along with C. Day Lewis and Edwin Muir .

Texts

Bowes Lyon, Lilian, and Cecil Day-Lewis. Collected Poems. Jonathan Cape, 1948.
Day-Lewis, Cecil. Collected Poems. Jonathan Cape with The Hogarth Press, 1954.
Day-Lewis, Cecil, and Lilian Bowes Lyon. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Jonathan Cape, 1948, pp. 11-16.
Jennings, Elizabeth et al. “Letters to the Editor: Future of Radio”. Times, p. 11.
Bowen, Elizabeth. “Notes on Writing a Novel”. Orion: A Miscellany, edited by Rosamond Lehmann et al., Nicholson and Watson, 1945.