Cecil Day-Lewis
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- Cecil Day-Lewis
- Born in Ireland in 1904, but grew up in England
- His mother died when he was only 4
- After his mother death, his father focused a lot of attention on his son, but Day- Lewis found it difficult to live up to his father's expectations and they had a difficult relationship
- He was educated at Sherborne School, a boarding school
- When he was there he met Mary King, one of the teacher's daughter's, who encouraged him to explore the natural world
- At school they were just friends but they later got married
- When he was there he met Mary King, one of the teacher's daughter's, who encouraged him to explore the natural world
- After school, he went to Oxford University, but didnt do very well in his academic studies, he did however, write a lot of poetry
- He became friends with W.H.Auden and the writer Stephen Spender and the three were known as the 'radical poets of the 1930's' - their poetry often contained political themes
- Became a teacher but continued to write poetry
- By the end of the 1930's he had lost his faith in communism and his writing became less political and more personal
- He wrote novels under the name Nicholas Blake
- In the 1940's he had a long affair with the novelist Rosamond Lehmann but his wife didnt want to get divorced
- Eventually she agreed, but he didnt marry Rosamond, instead marrying the actress Jill Balcan who was much younger. Their son Daniel Day-Lewis is a famous actor
- In 1968 he was Poet Laureate
- He died in 1972
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