C. Day-Lewis was one of the leading British poets of the 1930’s, closely associated with his friend W. H. Auden, producing poetry of left-wing political state

C. Day Lewis (1904-1972) was one of the leading young poets of the 1930's who - along with W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender - broke away from th

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