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Also Known As Cecil Day-Lewis • Nicholas Blake
Born April 27, 1904 • Ireland
Died May 22, 1972 (aged 68) • England
Title / Office poet laureate (1968-1972)
Notable Family Members son Daniel Day-Lewis

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C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
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Sir Stephen Spender
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
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F.R. Leavis
British critic
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
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Ann Radcliffe
English author
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
British author
Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis
British author
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John Wain
British critic and writer
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T.E. Hulme
English critic and poet
Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British writer
Portrait of John Masefield, English poet and novelist, c. 1915, showing him in a suit with a high white collar and a contemplative expression.
John Masefield
British poet
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Eden Phillpotts
British writer
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Robert Williams Buchanan
English author
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Vladimir Nabokov
American author
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Wole Soyinka
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