Cecil Day-Lewis

RL made an admired speech. Other speakers included her current husband, Wogan Philipps , her current lover, Goronwy Rees , and the man who was to be her great love, Cecil Day Lewis .

She began this book by April 1955, but her writing was interrupted when her mother arrived from Kenya to spend three months in England. She submitted the draft to Chatto on 7 March 1956...

She wrote it in 1946, and revised it in a state of dissatisfaction with her first version. Chatto and Windus were enthusiastic about it and offered her an advance of £150 and a royalty of...

Penguin was emboldened to embark on the course of action that led to the trial by the Obscene Publications Act of the previous year, which admitted the defence of literary merit against charges of obscenity...

MS attended a party at the Ritz given by Carl H. Pforzheimer for people who had written about the Shelleys, where she met Cecil Day Lewis and Edmund Blunden .

The year after her devastating parting from Cecil Day-Lewis , RL sold her manor house at Long Wittenham, and moved to a flat at 70 Eaton Square in London.

This became Cecil Day-Lewis 's second home, and Lehmann adapted the barn to make a studio for her sister Beatrix .

Cecil Day Lewis takes these to represent her middle period, side-tracked from her true bent by the compelling mannerisms of Hopkins and the more public preoccupations of the 'thirties, and therefore showing a sense of...

Day-Lewis heard an echo of Gerard Manley Hopkins in some of her compounds, like oat-field's silver-water sail. This collection reveals the strands of imagery and thematic concerns that bind her work together. The last...

LBL published her fourth book of verse, Evening in Stepney, and Other Poems, ranked by Cecil Day-Lewis as her first volume of consistently mature work.

In the last year of her life LBL published her Collected Poems, with an introduction by 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

RL wrote verse throughout her life. Much of it is personal and occasional. Her abandonment by her lover, C. Day-Lewis , produced one melancholy lament and one bitter little satirical dirge. She wrote...