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 it Far to Go?", reads: <poem> "Shall I be gone long?" "To whom there belong?" </poem> Day-Lewis fathered four children . His first two children, with Constance Mary King, were Sean Day-Lewis, a TV critic and writer, and Nicholas Day-Lewis, who became an engineer. His children with Balcon were Tamasin Day-Lewis, a television chef and food critic, and Daniel Day-Lewis, who became an award-winning actor . Sean Day-Lewis published a biography of his father, "C. Day Lewis: An English Literary Life" (1980). Daniel Day-Lewis donated his father’s archive to the Bodleian library. In 1935, Day-Lewis decided to increase his income