What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Cecil Day Lewis 1904-1972 Poet Laureate lived here 1933-1938 Recorded plaque organisation: Cheltenham Civic Society.
Cecil Day Lewis was a renowned British poet and novelist, later known as the Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972; he is remembered for both his poetry and his detective novels written under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake.
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