Cecil Day-Lewis

Cecil Day-Lewis
Biografske informacije
Rođenje(1904-04-27)27. 4. 1904.
Ballintubbert, Queen's County, Irska
Smrt22. 5. 1972. (dob: 68)
Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire, Engleska, UK
PseudonimNicholas Blake
Državljanstvobritansko
SupružnikConstance Mary King (1928–1951, razvod)
Jill Balcon (1951–1972, njegova smrt)
DjecaSean Day-Lewis (r. 1931)
Nicholas Day-Lewis (r. 1934) Tamasin Day-Lewis (r. 1953)
Daniel Day-Lewis (r. 1957)
Obrazovanje
Zanimanjeknjiževnik
Opus
Književne vrstepoezija
Jezikengleski

Cecil Day-Lewis (27. april 1904 - 22. maj 1972) bio je britanski pjesnik i književnik rodom iz Irske. Osim poezijom, bavio se i pisanjem kriminalističkih romana pod pseudonimom Nicholas Blake.

Bio je oženjen dva puta - za učiteljicu Constance Mary King, sa kojom je imao dva sina; nakon razvoda se godine 1951. oženio za glumicu Jill Bacon, sa kojom je imao dva sina - režisera Tamasina Day-Lewisa i glumca Daniela Day-Lewisa.

Bibliografija

Zbirke poezije

  • Transitional Poem (1929)
  • From Feathers to Iron (1931)
  • Collected Poems 1929–1933 (1935)
  • A Time to Dance and Other Poems (1935)
  • Overtures to Death (1938)
  • Short Is the Time (1945)
  • Collected Poems (1954)
  • Pegasus and Other Poems (1957)
  • The Gate, and Other Poems (1962)
  • The Whispering Roots and Other Poems (1970)[1]
  • The Complete Poems of C.Day-Lewis (1992)[2]
  • urednik: A New Anthology of Modern Verse 1920–1940 (1941) ko-urednik: L. A. G. Strong.
  • urednik: The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry 1915–1955 (1956) ko-urednik: John Lehmann.

Zbirke eseja

  • A Hope for Poetry (1934)[1]
  • Poetry for You (1944)
  • The Poetic Image (1947)

Prijevodi

Romani pod vlastitim imenom

  • The Friendly Tree (1936)
  • Starting Point (1937)
  • Child of Misfortune (1939)

Romani pod pseudonimom Nicholas Blake

  • A Question of Proof (1935)
  • Thou Shell of Death (1936; također objavljen kao Shell of Death)
  • There's Trouble Brewing (1937)
  • The Beast Must Die (1938)
  • The Smiler with the Knife (1939)
  • Malice in Wonderland (1940; američki naslov: The Summer Camp Mystery)
  • The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941; također objavljen pod naslovom The Corpse in the Snowman)
  • Minute for Murder (1947)
  • Head of a Traveller (1949)
  • The Dreadful Hollow (1953)
  • The Whisper in the Gloom (1954; također objavljen pod naslovom Catch and Kill)
  • A Tangled Web (1956; također objavljen kao Death and Daisy Bland)
  • End of Chapter (1957)
  • A Penknife in My Heart (1958)
  • The Widow's Cruise (1959)
  • The Worm of Death (1961)
  • The Deadly Joker (1963)
  • The Sad Variety (1964)
  • The Morning after Death (1966)
  • The Private Wound (1968)

Dječji romani

Autobiografija

  • The Buried Day (1960)

Izvori

  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 Day Lewis, C
  2. 2,0 2,1 BBC
  3. Fragment Orpheus and Eurydice se pojavio u The Queen's Book of the Red Cross.

Vanjske veze

Akademske funkcije
Prethodi:
John Masefield
britanski pjesnik-laureat
1967–1972
Slijedi:
John Betjeman