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C. Day Lewis

EnglishApril 27, 1904 – May 22, 1972Poetry

Irish-English poet and poet laureate who was a member of the 1930s Auden group. He also wrote detective novels as Nicholas Blake and translated Virgil.

Works

  • Collected PoemsComplete poems of a twentieth-century poet and literary critic known for accessibility→
  • The Magnetic MountainPoetry collection of political engagement and leftist commitment during Depression era→
  • Transitional PoemModernist poem examining consciousness and artistic transformation through shifting perspectives→
  • An Italian VisitPoetry collection exploring Italy and travel through formal, meditative verse→

Related

W.H. Auden·Stephen Spender·Louis MacNeice
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