C Day-Lewis : a life
- Author/Creator:
- Stanford, Peter, 1961- author
- Publication/Creation:
- London, [England] : Continuum, 2007
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- C Day-Lewis : a life / Peter Stanford
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- Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Youth -- pt. 2. The thirties -- pt. 3. At war -- pt. 4. A kind of peace.
- Summary:
- How unfair' , wrote one national newspaper in 1951, ' that accomplishments enough to satisfy the pride of six men should be united in Mr Day-Lewis.' Poet, translator of classical texts, novelist, detective writer (under the pen-name Nicholas Blake), performer and, at that time, Professor of Poetry at Oxford, C Day-Lewis had many careers all at once. This first authorised biography tells the private story behind the many headlines that this handsome, charming Anglo-Irish Poet Laureate generated in his lifetime. With unparalleled access to Day-Lewis's archives and the recollections of first-
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (389 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936956343102486
- ISBN:
- 1-4411-2056-4
1-283-12264-2
9786613122643
1-4411-3974-5 - OCLC Number:
- 727649600
1027159425
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