Complete PoemsTogether with Auden, Spender and MacNeice, C. Day Lewis was one of the leading young poets who in the 1930s broke away from the poetic establishment of those days. Day Lewis started writing poetry very young and, despite an active career which embraced schoolmastering , journalism, publishing, academic lecturing and the writing of detective stories, his devotion to poetry never wavered. Always prolife, he continued to write to the end of his days, so that when he died in 1972, having held the Chair of Poetry at Oxford from 1951 and 1956 and having been appointed Poet Laureate in 1968, he left behind a very large and varied body of work. |
Contents
Lines from the French | |
Lines from Catullus | |
An April Mood | |
Autumn of the Mood | |
Haven in Ithaca | |
Spring Song | |
The Lighted House | |
Word Over | |
The Innocent | |
The Double Vision | |
Heart and Mind | |
The HouseWarming | |
Dialogue at the Airport | |
Between Hush and Hush | |
Wreck near Ballinacarig | |
Part 2 | |
Chapter | |
Part Three | |
Learning to Talk | |
In Me Two Worlds | |
Poem for an Anniversary | |
A Time to Dance | |
Epilogue | |
Maple and Sumach | |
The Bells that Signed | |
In the Heart of Contemplation | |
A Letter from Rome | |
Bus to Florence | |
Works of | |
Pegasus 1957 | |
A Riddle | |
The House Where I was Born | |
On a Dorset Upland | |
Acknowledgments | |
The Newborn | |
Battle of Britain | |
Keats 18211971 | |