C. Day Lewis (1904-1972) was one of the leading young poets of the
1930's who - along with W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen
Spender - broke away from the staid poetic establishment to dominate
British poetry in the middle third of the century. Here, for the first
time, are all the poems Day Lewis wrote, including occasional verse
which has never appeared in book form and a number of poems previously
published only in limited editions. The Complete Poems has been edited,
with an introduction and textual notes, by Jill Balcon, the poet's
widow.