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It is 120 years today since Cecil Day Lewis was born.
Irish poet, publisher and professor, and a British citizen from 1948. Cecil Day Lewis is one of the most prominent names in English-language poetry from the mid-twentieth century. Writing under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, he was also a respected and rather popular crime writer. He was a member of many different academic societies in Great Britain and the USA, and a professor of poetry at...
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Noll, Ingrid
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1933 - 2011
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Harper, Jane
1980 -
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Francis, Dick
1920 - 2010
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