Further Reading
C Day-Lewis: a Life By Peter Stanford
In May 2007, working with Day-Lewis’s widow, Jill Balcon, and all members of the Day-Lewis family, writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford published C Day-Lewis: A Life. The current Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, selecting the biography as the Guardian’s Book of the Week, described it as 'shrewd, conscientious...Stanford is careful not to sound censorious. His book is all the better for this. It allows us to see Day-Lewis's charm as well as his calculation.'. In the Daily Telegraph, Betjeman’s biographer, Bevis Hillier, concurred - 'an intelligent, fair and well-written biography...(it) sent me back to Day-Lewis's Collected Poems'. Meanwhile in the Spectator, poet PJ Kavanagh wrote: 'This book succeeds in making the reader like Day-Lewis and catches his charm. Much more importantly it helps the reader to sympathise with and understand his poetry: romantic, yes - also dismissive, tortured, and sometimes joyous'.
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8603-5
C Day Lewis: Selected Poems Edited by Jill Balcon
In May 2004, to mark the centenary of Day-Lewis’s birth, his widow, Jill Balcon, published C Day Lewis: Selected Poems with Enitharmon Press. As well as verse published throughout his career, Balcon also offers an introduction to the work from her unique vantage point.
ISBN: 1-904634 -11-7
Living In Time: The Poetry of C Day-Lewis By Albert Gelpi
Published in 1998 by Oxford University Press, this examination of Day-Lewis's poetry is written by his old friend, Albert Gelpi, Professor of American Literature at Stanford University.
ISBN 978 - 0195098631
The Complete Poems of C Day Lewis Edited by Jill Balcon
Also edited by Balcon, was first published in 1991, but is still available in paperback from Sinclair Stevenson.
ISBN: 1-85619-144-3
Where Shall We Go To Dinner?: A Food Romance By Tamasin Day-Lewis
Part travelogue, part recipe book and part memoir, this 2007 book includes reflections on her childhood by C Day-Lewis’s only daughter, the documentary film maker and cookery writer, Tamasin. 'A scrumptious umpteen course gastromance. I gobbled every word,' wrote Richard E. Grant.
ISBN: 978-0297844297
