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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 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 1,524,777 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Cecil Day-Lewis is the 3,115th most popular writer (up from 3,810th in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from Ireland (up from 163rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 1.5M

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  • 51.30

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cecil Day-Lewis ranks 3,115 out of 5,755. Before him are Gaston Rébuffat, Theodor Kallifatides, Curt von Bardeleben, Charles Kingsley, Branwell Brontë, and Branko Radičević. After him are Hitoshi Igarashi, Theodore Bibliander, László Polgár, Zivia Lubetkin, Maximilian Voloshin, and Richard Dehmel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Cecil Day-Lewis ranks 154. Before him are Sergei Yutkevich, Pinhas Lavon, Luigi Bertolini, Miguel Capuccini, Heinrich von Brentano, and Juan José Arévalo. After him are Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, André Leducq, Lin Huiyin, Ellen Church, Georges Sadoul, and Alexander Gerschenkron. Among people deceased in 1972, Cecil Day-Lewis ranks 113. Before him are Prince William of Gloucester, Mahendra of Nepal, Friedrich Christiansen, Alfons Gorbach, Maximus V of Constantinople, and Ennio Flaiano. After him are Max Aub, Vladimir Durković, Joseph Cornell, W. Ross Ashby, Edward Calvin Kendall, and Lee Beom-seok.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Cecil Day-Lewis ranks 131 out of 501. Before him are William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737), Roy Keane (1971), Charles Villiers Stanford (1852), Arthur Griffith (1871), John Boland (1870), and Douglas Hyde (1860). After him are Eddie Jordan (1948), Barry Fitzgerald (1888), Sally Oldfield (1947), Coloman of Stockerau (1000), Richard Montgomery (1738), and Anne de Mortimer (1390).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Cecil Day-Lewis ranks 22. Before him are Charles Maturin (1780), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Patrick Pearse (1879), John Banville (1945), Cornelius Ryan (1920), and John Millington Synge (1871). After him are Brendan Behan (1923), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), Edna O'Brien (1930), Seán O'Casey (1880), Maeve Binchy (1939), and Jane Wilde (1821).

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