Cecil Day-Lewis

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...

She wrote it in 1946, and revised it in a state of dissatisfaction with her first version. Chatto and Windus were enthusiastic about it and offered her an advance of £150 and a royalty of...

She began this book by April 1955, but her writing was interrupted when her mother arrived from Kenya to spend three months in England. She submitted the draft to Chatto on 7 March 1956...

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 .

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...

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...

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 , 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...

Elizabeth Bowen published an appreciative review of this novel in The New Statesman and Nation on 11 July 1936.Ralph Straus and Cecil Day Lewis were also lavish with their praise. Q. D. Leavis

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...

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...

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

When EJH 's old friend and one time lover Cecil Day-Lewis fell terminally ill with pancreatic cancer, he and his wife Jill Balcon both came to stay at Lemmons. Day-Lewis died there.

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...

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...