Cecil Day-Lewis

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

Connections

Connections Author name Sort ascending Excerpt
Anthologization Dorothy Wellesley
Horses, having gone forward into Poems of Ten Years, 1924-1934, was selected by W. B. Yeats for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1935, and by Philip Larkin for The Oxford Book...
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
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
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
politics Rosamond Lehmann
RL made an admired speech. Other speakers included her current husband, Wogan Philipps , her current lover, Goronwy Rees , and the man who was to be her great love, Cecil Day Lewis .
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
1-2
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
Literary responses Rosamond Lehmann
Elizabeth Bowen published an appreciative review of this novel in The New Statesman and Nation on 11 July 1936.
LeStourgeon, Diana. Rosamond Lehmann. Twayne.
87, 148
Ralph Straus and Cecil Day Lewis were also lavish with their praise. Q. D. Leavis
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
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Rosamond Lehmann
RL began a sexual relationship with the poet Cecil Day-Lewis ; she knew him a little, and he declared his love for her at dinner together during a bombing raid.
Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press.
16
Tindall, Gillian. Rosamond Lehmann: An Appreciation. Chatto and Windus; Hogarth Press.
120
Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang.
135
Family and Intimate relationships Rosamond Lehmann
RL was finally abandoned by Cecil Day-Lewis , who left her to marry the actress Jill Balcon , a woman twenty-one years younger than himself.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
281
Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press.
16
Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang.
136, 138, 149
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 D. H. Lawrence
Penguin was emboldened to embark on the course of action that led to the trial by the Obscene Publications Act of the previous year, which admitted the defence of literary merit against charges of obscenity...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Jennings
She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis . Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her...
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 ,...

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.