“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
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 | 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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phyllis Bentley | 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... |
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 |
Literary responses | Lilian Bowes Lyon | 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... |
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 |
Literary responses | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Day-Lewis
, though he wrote enthusiastically of individual poems, feared before this volume's publication to make exorbitant claims that would darken judgement. Day-Lewis, Cecil, and Lilian Bowes Lyon. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Jonathan Cape, pp. 11-16. 15 |
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 |
Literary responses | Lilian Bowes Lyon | 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... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | 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... |
Fictionalization | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Cecil Day-Lewis
wrote Remembering Con Markievicz early in his career. Smith, D. J. “The Countess and the Poets: Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz in the Work of Irish Writers”. Journal of Irish Literature, Vol. 12 , No. 1, pp. 3-63. 60 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jane Howard | 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 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Jane Howard | 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... |
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...
Writing climate item
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.