Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Cecil Day Lewis
Born: April 27, 1904
Died: May 22, 1972 (aged 68)
Bio: Cecil Day-Lewis was a British poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake.
Known for:
- The poetic image (1947)
- The Otterbury Incident (1948)
- The complete poems of C. Day Lewis
- A Question of Proof (1935)
- The private wound (1968)