C. (Cecil) Day Lewis letters to Terence Tiller

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0099-F0957

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

British poet C. (Cecil) Day Lewis wrote five short letters to poet and broadcaster Terence Tiller in 1955 and 1963 to accompany poems [not present] intended for radio broadcast.

In the letters, Day Lewis discusses his recently written "Pegasus," "Psyche," and "Baucis and Philemon" poems and references the 1946 merge of Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press with Chatto and Windus.

Dates

Creation: 1955-1963

Creator

Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972 (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials entirely in English.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

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C. (Cecil) Day Lewis (1904-1972)

British poet and novelist C. (Cecil) Day Lewis (1904-1972) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972.

Day Lewis' career as a writer is marked by numerous collections of poetry, twenty-one crime novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, and various translations, essays, and other fiction works. Among many other professional assignments, Day Lewis was a senior reader and member of the board of directors for publisher Chatto and Windus.

Sean Day-Lewis, "Lewis, Cecil Day- (1904-1972)."Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., Jan 2013. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31014 (accessed April 10, 2014). "C(ecil) Day Lewis." Contemporary Authors Online (reproduced in Gale Biography In Context). http://ic.galegroup.com (accessed April 10, 2014).

Extent

5 item

Additional Description

Abstract

British poet and novelist C. (Cecil) Day Lewis (1904-1972) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. Day Lewis wrote five short letters to poet and broadcaster Terence Tiller in 1955 and 1963 to accompany poems [not present] intended for radio broadcast.