Summary

Creator:	Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972
Date(s):	1955-1963
Call Number:	MSS 0099, F0957
Language:	Materials entirely in English.
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.
Physical Description:	5 items
Source:	Purchase, October 2013.
Processing:	Processed and encoded by Dustin Frohlich, March 2014. Further encoded by George Apodaca, October 2015. Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Biographical and Historical Notes

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.

Sources

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).

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.

Using these materials

Shelving Summary

Box 66, F0957: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099.

Access Information

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

MSS 0099, F0957, C. (Cecil) Day Lewis letters to Terence Tiller, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

Related Materials in this Repository

This item forms part of MSS 0099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

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Names & Subjects

Names

• Chatto & Windus (Firm)
• Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972
• Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972--Correspondence
• Hogarth Press
• Tiller, Terence, 1916-
• Tiller, Terence, 1916- --Correspondence

Subjects

• Authors
• Broadcasters
• Poets
• Poets, English--20th century--Correspondence

Formats

• correspondence