Cecil Day-Lewis

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. The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...

Together, RL and Cecil Day Lewis launched and edited a literary magazine called Orion, which kept afloat for four issues.

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

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...