C Day-Lewis: A Life

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Cecil Day-Lewis died in 1972: a celebrated national figure, the Poet Laureate since 1968, a familiar face on television and an even more familiar voice on radio. Day-Lewis had a turbulent and sometimes very public private life divorcing his wife and leaving his lover Rosamund Lehmann simultaneously in 1951 in a blaze of newspaper coverage to marry the actress Jill Balcon, 21 years his junior. The biography will describe both the man and the poet, taking into account his other writing too: his three novels in the 1930s, various children's books, several works of non-fiction on the history and politics of verse, and 20 detective novels under the pen-name Nicholas Blake. He had one modest wish for his reputation after death: Such immortality as I ever want is for a few people to read my poems for a few years after I am dead