Cecil Day-Lewis from Auden. After the war he joined the publisher Chatto & Windus as a director and senior editor. In 1946, Day-Lewis was a lecturer at Cambridge University, publishing his lectures in "The Poetic Image" (1947). Day-Lewis was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by George VI in his 1950 Birthday Honours. He later taught poetry at Oxford, where he was Professor of Poetry from 1951 to 1956. During 1962–1963, he was the Norton Professor at Harvard University. Day-Lewis was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968, in succession to John Masefield. Day-Lewis was chairman of the
Cecil Day-Lewis figure in later novels.) From the mid-1930s Day-Lewis was able to earn his living by writing. Four of the Blake novels – "A Tangled Web, Penknife in My Heart, The Deadly Joker, The Private Wound" – do not feature Strangeways. "Minute for Murder" is set against the background of Day-Lewis's Second World War experiences in the Ministry of Information. "Head of a Traveller" features as a principal character a well-known poet, frustrated and suffering writer's block, whose best poetic days are long behind him. Readers and critics have speculated whether the author is describing himself, one of his colleagues, or