Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Cecil Day-Lewis NPG x126514

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Gay

Poet, critic and detective storywriter (as Nicholas Blake). Made his name with Transitional Poems (1929) and during the 1930s became associated with Auden and Spender in left-wing causes. During World War II worked for the Ministry of Information. Became Professor of Poetry at Oxford (1951-6) and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.