Cecil Day-Lewis

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 .

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...

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 .

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...

This became Cecil Day-Lewis 's second home, and Lehmann adapted the barn to make a studio for her sister Beatrix .

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.

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 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...

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

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...

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. She wrote...

PB published her autobiography, calling it "O Dreams, O Destinations", which is quoted from Words over All by Cecil Day Lewis .

This vintage volume was edited by a group of authors including Rosamond Lehmann and Cecil Day Lewis .EB 's essay (in which sometimes aphoristic notes are lightly linked) was reprinted in her posthumous Pictures and Conversations.

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.