Day-Lewis, C(ecil)

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Irish poet. With W H Auden and Stephen Spender, he was one of the influential left-wing poets of the 1930s. His later poetry moved from political concerns to a more traditional personal lyricism. He also wrote detective novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. He was British poet laureate 1968–72.

His poetry, which includes From Feathers to Iron (1931) and Overtures to Death (1938), is marked by accomplished lyrics and sustained narrative power. The Complete Poems was published in 1992.

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