Cecil Day-Lewis His detective novel, "The Sad Variety" (1964), contains a scathing portrayal of doctrinaire communists, the Soviet Union's repression of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, and the ruthless tactics of Soviet intelligence agents. Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often writing as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He is the father of Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, a noted actor, and Tamasin Day-Lewis, a documentary filmmaker and television chef.
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