TWA Poet: Cecil Day-Lewis

1904 - 1972 "Love is proved in the letting go."

Today is the birthday of Anglo-Irish poet and detective novelist Cecil Day-Lewis. Born in Ballintubbert, Ireland, in 1904, he moved with his father to London in 1906, following his mother's death. He attended Oxford and became one of a leftist poets' group led by W.H. Auden. In 1935, he wrote a detective novel, A Question of Proof, to pay for the repair…