WRITER

Cecil Day-Lewis

1904 - 1972

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Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways. During World War II, Day-Lewis worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information for the U.K. government, and also served in the Musbury branch of the British Home Guard. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cecil Day-Lewis has received more than 1,647,917 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Cecil Day-Lewis is the 4,480th most popular writer (down from 3,104th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 130th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 1.6M

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  • 49.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cecil Day-Lewis ranks 4,480 out of 7,302. Before him are Julia Quinn, Tracy Chevalier, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Sofia Yablonska. After him are Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Sakyo Komatsu, Itzik Feffer, Turan Dursun, El-Registan, and Reginald Rose.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Cecil Day-Lewis ranks 219. Before him are Semyon Ignatyev, Tita Merello, Josef Pieper, Dick Powell, Nnamdi Azikiwe, and Yves Giraud-Cabantous. After him are Attila Petschauer, Giuliano Bonfante, Piero Toscani, Constance Bennett, Gregg Toland, and Ancel Keys. Among people deceased in 1972, Cecil Day-Lewis ranks 162. Before him are Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Jan Wils, Edward Cook, Walter Lang, Martim Mércio da Silveira, and Arthur Russell. After him are Jamini Roy, Mikhail Artamonov, Kenny Dorham, Alfred Schmidt, Rudolf Friml, and Alexander Bek.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Cecil Day-Lewis ranks 194 out of 549. Before him are Aidan of Lindisfarne (600), Paul Kane (1810), Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie (1815), Patrick Bergin (1951), Caitriona Balfe (1979), and Steve Barron (1956). After him are Peter Woulfe (1727), Barney McKenna (1939), Seán T. O'Kelly (1882), Stephen Roche (1959), Nora Barnacle (1884), and Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Cecil Day-Lewis ranks 32. Before him are Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Seán O'Casey (1880), Maeve Binchy (1939), William Trevor (1928), Colm Tóibín (1955), and Richard Steele (1672). After him are Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), George Moore (1852), John Connolly (1968), William McGonagall (1825), Michael Scott (1959), and Eoin Colfer (1965).

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