Cecil Day-Lewis

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...

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...

EJH met Arthur Koestler at a party and was bowled over by his whirlwind energy, but when he proposed marriage she had enough sense to counter-suggest living together for some months instead to see how...

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.

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...

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...

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...