Complete Poems of C.Day Lewis, The - Hardcover

Lewis, C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804720703 ISBN 13: 9780804720700

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1992

Synopsis

C. Day Lewis (1904-1972) was one of the leading young poets of the 1930's who - along with W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender - broke away from the staid poetic establishment to dominate British poetry in the middle third of the century. Here, for the first time, are all the poems Day Lewis wrote, including occasional verse which has never appeared in book form and a number of poems previously published only in limited editions. The Complete Poems has been edited, with an introduction and textual notes, by Jill Balcon, the poet's widow.

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Review

" Day Lewis could write in any sort of style. . . . The still lively fascination of his verse seems to depend on the variety of tones he could pick up, change, and discard at will. . . . For anyone who likes poetry there is real interest here in the complete record." -- "New York Review of Books"

"Day Lewis could write in any sort of style. . . . The still lively fascination of his verse seems to depend on the variety of tones he could pick up, change, and discard at will. . . . For anyone who likes poetry there is real interest here in the complete record."--New York Review of Books

-Day Lewis could write in any sort of style. . . . The still lively fascination of his verse seems to depend on the variety of tones he could pick up, change, and discard at will. . . . For anyone who likes poetry there is real interest here in the complete record.---New York Review of Books

About the Author

C. Day Lewis was born in Ireland ( and always cherished his Irish background) in 1904, and was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford. On leaving Oxford in 1927 he taught at various schools in England and Scotland until 1935, when he abandoned schoolmastering for good. By then he had published half a dozen volumes of verse, of which From Feathers to Iron and The Magnetic Mountain formed the basis of his reputation as one of the significant poets of the thirties. In 1946 he was invited to give the Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, and from 1951-6 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Two years later he became Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. He was Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard in 1964-5 and held the Compton Lectureship in Poetry at Hull University. During all this time he continued steadily to write poetry. In 1968 he was appointed Poet Laureate, but tragically died of cancer only four years later.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804720703
• ISBN 13: 9780804720700
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 768