Cecil Day-Lewis

C. Day Lewis

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>Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis was born in County Laois, Ireland, in 1904. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his clergyman father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. Lewis initially worked as a teacher to supplement his income from his poetry writing. Under the pen-name <a href=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2471327A/Nicholas_Blake/>Nicholas Blake</a>, he published his first Nigel Strangeways novel, *A Question of Proof*, in 1935. Lewis went on to write a further nineteen crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways, as well as numerous poetry collections and translations. >During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in *Minute for Murder*, and after the war he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director. He was married twice, in 1928 to Constance M King, the daughter of a master at Sherborne, and in 1951 to the actress Jill Balcon. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and died in 1972 at the home of his friend, the writer Kingsley Amis.

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The Case of the Abominable Snowman
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The sad variety
Representative edition published 2021
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Thou Shell of Death
Representative edition published 2018
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End of chapter
Representative edition published 2018
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Bodies from the Library
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The smiler with the knife
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The beast must die
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The Otterbury incident
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Smertelʹnyĭ rozygrysh
Representative edition published 2015
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The lyric impulse
Representative edition published 2014
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Golova puteshestvennika
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The Deepcut Review
Representative edition published 2006
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Steering to Glory
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The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy
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Selected poems
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La Bestia Debe Morir
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Minuto Para El Crimen
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Immigration, asylum, and human rights
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Mehrauli
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Minute for murder
Representative edition published 2000
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The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy
Representative edition published 2000
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A question of proof
Representative edition published 1999
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A penknife in my heart
Representative edition published 1997
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10 relatos de detectives
Representative edition published 1996
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