![]() ![]() In 1928 he married Constance Mary King, the daughter of a Sherborne master (i.e. His first collection of poems, Beechen Vigil, appeared in 1925. Auden and helped him to edit Oxford Poetry 1927. In Oxford, Day-Lewis became part of the circle gathered around W. He was educated at Sherborne School and at Wadham College, Oxford. In his autobiography The Buried Day (1960), he wrote "As a writer I do not use the hyphen in my surname – a piece of inverted snobbery which has produced rather mixed results".Īfter the death of his mother in 1906, Cecil was brought up in London by his father, with the help of an aunt, spending summer holidays with relatives in County Wexford. His father took on the surname "Day-Lewis" as a combination of his own birth father's ("Day") and adoptive father's ("Lewis") surnames. Some of his family were from England (Hertfordshire and Canterbury). He was the son of Frank Day-Lewis (died 29 July 1937), Church of Ireland Rector of that parish, and Kathleen Blake (née Squires died 1906). ![]() Day-Lewis was born in Ballintubbert, Athy/ Stradbally border, Queen's County (now known as County Laois), Ireland. ![]()
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