Biography of c day lewis the newborn
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Cecil Day Lewis (1905-72)
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[C.Biography of c day lewis the newbornDay Lewis; bapt. Day-Lewis; pseud. Nicholas Blake]; b. 24 April, Ballintubbert House, Ballintober, Co. Laois, son of Frank Day-Lewis, an Anglican minster who came to Ballintubbert House as rector in 1902, bringing his newly-wed wife Kathleen; not registered for six months, and recorded as Cecil Day by way of Christian name; spent 18 months in Ballintubbert and left for Worcestershire in pursuit of clerical career; death of Kathleen, 1908; ed. Biography of c day lewis the newborn babySherbourne and Wadham College (Oxon.); m. Mary King, 1928, mother of Sean and David; taught at Cheltenham Junior School, 1930-35; wrote proto-agrarian poetry in the 1930s; |
moved to Devon, 1936; joined British Communist Party, 1937; ed.
The Mind in Chains (1937), left-wing symposium; brought to Jonathan Cape, publisher, by Rupert Hard-Davis; by his horatory ode On the Twentieth Anniversary of Soviet Power, hailing Lenin as loved by the people; with Aude |