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 Cecil Jones were undoubtedly planted postmortem. Various phone-company employees testified that they had witnessed the commotion outside of the jail on August 8. Two brothers testified that they saw two of the mob members driving their cars- which matched the description given by countless witnesses of the August 8 release from jail- to Minden from Cotton Valley, in the evening hours of August 8. In the end, none of the evidence could defeat Jim Crow and the Southern strategy. All five defendants were acquitted by a jury of twelve white men. John Cecil Jones John Cecil Jones was an honorably-discharged World War