Bibliography
Poetry Collections
Beechen Vigil (1925)
Country Comets (1928)
Transitional Poem (1929)
From Feathers to Iron (1931)
The Magnetic Mountain (1933)
Collected Poems 1929-1933 (1935)
A Time To Dance (1935)
Noah and The Waters (1936)
Overtures to Death (1938)
Poems in Wartime (1940)
Selected Poems (1940)
Word Over All (1943)
Poems 1943-1947 (1948)
Collected Poems 1929-1936 (1949)
Selected Poems (1951)
An Italian Visit (1953)
Collected Poems (1954)
Pegasus and Other Poems (1957)
The Gate and Other Poems (1962)
Requiem for the Living (US only 1964)
The Room and Other Poems (1965)
The Whispering Roots (1970)
Fiction
Dick Willoughby (1933)
The Friendly Tree (1936)
Starting Point (1937)
Child of Misfortune (1939)
The Otterbury Incident (1948)
Non-Fiction
A Hope for Poetry (1934)
Revolution in Writing (1935)
We’re Not Going To Do Nothing (1936)
Poetry For You (1944)
The Poetic Image (1947)
The Buried Day (1960)
The Lyric Impulse (1965)
Translations
The Georgics of Virgil (1940)
The Graveyard by the Sea (1945)
The Aeneid of Virgil (1952)
The Eclogues of Virgil (1963)
Anthologies
Oxford Poetry 1927 (with WH Auden) (1927)
The Echoing Green (1937)
Anatomy of Oxford (with Charles Fenby) (1938)
A New Anthology of Modern Verse (with LAG Strong) (1941)
The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry (with John Lehmann) (1956)
A Book of English Lyrics (1961)
A Lasting Joy (1973)
Crime Fiction as Nicholas Blake
A Question of Proof (1935)
Thou Shell of Death (1936)
There’s Trouble Brewing (1937)
The Beast Must Die (1938)
The Smiler with the Knife (1939)
Malice in Wonderland (1940)
The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941)
Minute for Murder (1947)
Head of a Traveller (1949)
The Dreadful Hollow (1953)
The Whisper in the Gloom (1954)
A Tangled Web (1956)
End of Chapter (1957)
A Penknife in My Heart (1958)
The Widow’s Cruise (1959)
The Worm of Death (1961)
The Deadly Joker (1963)
The Sad Variety (1964)
The Morning After Death (1966)
The Private Wound (1968)
Posthumous Collections
Selected Poems (ed Ian Parsons) (1977)
Posthumous Poems (ed Jill Balcon) (1979)
Complete Poems (ed Jill Balcon) (1992)
Selected Poems (ed Jill Balcon) (2004)
About the Man
Clifford Dyment: C Day Lewis (1955)
Ed Patric Dickinson: C Day Lewis: Selections from His Poetry (1967)
Compiled Geoffrey Handley-Taylor and Timothy d’Arch Smith: C Day-Lewis: The Poet Laureate – A Bibliography (1968)
Sean Day-Lewis: C Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life (1980)
Albert Gelpi: Living in Time: The Poetry of C Day Lewis (1998)
Peter Stanford: C Day-Lewis: A Life (2007)
