Cecil Day Lewis
pon r Day says it will take him the best pars of a week to deal with the letters and telegrams he has received from all over the world, congratulating him on his new appointment as Poet Leureste. Dy Lewis, who is 63, and a former Professor of Poetry at Oxford University succeeds John Nosefield who died last May, and also follows in the paths of wordsworth, Southey and Tennyson. He lives in Green with his actress wife, Jill, and their two children, 14 year old Tusamin and 10 year old Daniel - and he is equally at home witting detective stories, which appear under his pseudonym Nicholes Blake, as well as poetry, In his new post he will be expected to write poetry to commemmorate both Royal and public events - and for this, in the 300 year old tradition of the office, he will receive 70 per year and 27 in lieu of a butt of sack'. What's your next move, dad? - young Daniel plays a game of draughts with his father, who is taking a rest from reading the many letters congraulating him on his appointment as Post Laureate
