{"product_id":"2026200010507-secondhand-c-day-lewis-an-english-literary-life","title":"C. Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: Worn\/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good — pages intact, binding firm. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecil Day-Lewis — poet, novelist, and Poet Laureate of Great Britain — led one of the most richly textured literary lives of the twentieth century, and his son Sean Day-Lewis chronicles that life with intimate authority and scholarly precision. This biography traces the arc of a complex man: from his Irish Protestant upbringing and his passionate flirtation with Marxism in the 1930s, through his celebrated tenure as a detective novelist writing under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, to his eventual appointment as Poet Laureate in 1968. The result is a portrait at once deeply personal and rigorously researched, illuminating the contradictions of a writer who straddled the worlds of high modernism and popular fiction with rare grace.\n\nSean Day-Lewis writes with a son's intimacy and a biographer's restraint, resisting hagiography in favour of honest, nuanced assessment. The book situates C. Day-Lewis firmly within his generation — alongside Auden, Spender, and MacNeice — while arguing for his singular place in the English literary tradition. Readers who believe they know the Poet Laureate will find, beneath the public laureate, a man of private doubts and enduring artistic ambition that refuses easy categorisation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130709123291,"sku":"2026200010507-SECONDHAND","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9f2336bf-3509-4157-be6a-b9e9316fcaf3.png?v=1786588986","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010507-secondhand-c-day-lewis-an-english-literary-life","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}