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
John C. and Augusta (Covell) Lewis House caps and incised detail. John C. and Augusta (Covell) Lewis House The John C. and Augusta (Covell) Lewis House is a private house located at 324 S. Mears Avenue in Whitehall, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. It now houses the Lewis House Bed and Breakfast. John C. Lewis was born in Canada in 1837, and moved to the United States in 1855. He finally settled in Whitehall in 1861, working as a day laborer. There he met his wife Augusta Covell, the two were married in 1864. Lewis soon purchased a sawmill,