Cecil Day-Lewis

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...

PB published her autobiography, calling it "O Dreams, O Destinations", which is quoted from Words over All by Cecil Day Lewis .

Inspired by her many years of local volunteering, it has chapters titled by stages in the group-action democratic process. It features as preliminary decoration a diagram or bird's-eye-view of a table set for a meeting...

This vintage volume was edited by a group of authors including Rosamond Lehmann and Cecil Day Lewis .EB 's essay (in which sometimes aphoristic notes are lightly linked) was reprinted in her posthumous Pictures and Conversations.

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.

In the last year of her life LBL published her Collected Poems, with an introduction by Cecil Day-Lewis .

Cecil Day-Lewis later took this volume to represent, alone, her early period. He found it clean in outline, of a decisive, spontaneous simplicity at its best . . . but never flat.He noted her...

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...

Day-Lewis rejoiced that this poem was not at all a piece of stark social realism, but a set of meditations upon the images and spiritual issues of war. He felt that it deserved more attention...

Day-Lewis heard an echo of Gerard Manley Hopkins in some of her compounds, like oat-field's silver-water sail. This collection reveals the strands of imagery and thematic concerns that bind her work together. The last...

Day-Lewis , though he wrote enthusiastically of individual poems, feared before this volume's publication to make exorbitant claims that would darken judgement. His championing of LBL 's work therefore tends to fall back on...

She finished writing this book in St Deiniol's Library near Hawarden Castle, repository of the collection of William Ewart Gladstone , and included in her novel all the flower names in a Victorian book...

Cecil Day-Lewis wrote Remembering Con Markievicz early in his career. She was refigured as Isabel Moore in Lennox Robinson 's novel A Young Man From the South, 1917, and as Angela Fitzgibbon in...

Her friends during the 1950s included Stephen and Natasha Spender , Alec Waugh , Margaret Lane , Malcolm Sargent , and Joyce Grenfell . She also met Cyril Connolly , Olivia Manning , Stevie Smith

In winter 1953 EJH , aged about thirty, became an editor at Chatto and Windus , which was then run by Norah Smallwood and Ian Parsons . She read submitted manuscripts, wrote reports on them...