Selected Poems
Selected Poems by C. Day Lewis, published by Enitharmon Press in October 2004, is a first edition collection that spans 216 pages. This centenary edition significantly expands upon the earlier selections made by the author’s wife, Jill Balcon, incorporating not only his last collection, The Whispering Roots, but also various poems written during his tenure as Poet Laureate and several posthumous works. The anthology presents a comprehensive view of Day Lewis’s technical variety and range, showcasing his evolution as a poet.
Readers will find a broad retrospective of Day Lewis’s work, which includes pastoral lyrics influenced by Hardy and Yeats, political verse from the 1930s, and more personal reflections from his later years. The collection highlights his idealistic and sincere approach to poetry, emphasizing a lifelong commitment to literature. This edition serves as a valuable resource for those interested in the development of poetic forms and themes throughout Day Lewis’s career, offering insights into his artistic journey and the depth of his contributions to the field of poetry.
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In this welcome centenary edition of C. Day Lewis’s poems, Jill Balcon has substantially extended her husband’s own Penguin selections of 1951 and 1969, including not only his last collection The Whispering Roots (1970), but also vers d’occasion written when he was Poet Laureate and a number of the Posthumous Poems. This broad retrospective allows the reader a proper view of the technical variety and range of Day Lewis’s work, from the pastoral lyrics of his youth, inspired by Hardy and Yeats, through the political verse of the 1930s, to the reflective and more personal poems of his later years. Day Lewis was fond of quoting Robert Frost’s dictum that ‘a poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom’. This could equally well describe his own development as a writer: idealistic, sincere and psychologically acute, he bears witness in his poetry to a lifelong commitment to serving literature and its makers.
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