Like Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender, he was a member of the "Auden Group", and he gained fame for his translations of Virgil's three major works.
This poet wrote that "the mind must sweat a poison / Keener than Thessaly's brew" in a work whose speaker states "Now I have come to reason / And cast my schoolboy clout." Another poem by this author claims that "big guns" will "Grow nearer home - and out of the dream-house stumbling" such that "You'll know you slept too long." This poet described how "for those / whom accident made great", "their seed is in us and over / our lives they are evergreen" in the title poem of one of his collections. This author of "Newsreel" and Transitional Poem introduced the detective Nigel Strangeways in A Question of Proof, a novel written under the pseudonym "Nicholas Blake". Like Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender, he was a member of the "Auden Group", and he gained fame for his translations of Virgil's three major works. His poetry collections include A Time to Dance and Overtures to Death. For 10 points, name this British Poet Laureate from 1968 to 1972 who rejected the use of the hyphen in his last name.
This poet wrote that "the mind must sweat a poison / Keener than Thessaly's brew" in a work whose speaker states "Now I have come to reason / And cast my schoolboy clout."
Cecil Day-Lewis [prompt on "Nicholas Blake" until it is read]