“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Cecil Day-Lewis
Standard Name: Day-Lewis, Cecil
Used Form: Cecil Day Lewis
Used Form: C. Day Lewis
Used Form: C. Day-Lewis
Connections
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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 | 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
. 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 |
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 |
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 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 |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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...
Writing climate item
February 1936
The awesome trio of political theorist Harold Laski
, publisher Victor Gollancz
, and writer and Labour MP John Strachey
established the Left Book Club (LBC)
.
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited.
: 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.