Editing Cecil Day-Lewis (section)

==Selected works==

===Poetry===

[[File:C. Day-Lewis - Blue plaque.jpg|thumb|right|[[English Heritage]] [[blue plaque]] of Cecil Day-Lewis in [[Greenwich]], London]]
* ''Transitional Poem'' (1929)
* ''From Feathers to Iron'' (1931)
* ''Collected Poems 1929–1933'' (1935)
* ''A Time to Dance and Other Poems'' (1935)
* ''Overtures to Death'' (1938)
* ''Word Over All'' (1943)
* ''Short Is the Time'' (1945)
* ''Selected Poems'' (1951)
* ''Walking Away'' (1956)
* ''Collected Poems'' (1954)
* ''Pegasus and Other Poems'' (1957)
* ''The Gate, and Other Poems'' (1962)
* ''The Whispering Roots and Other Poems'' (1970)<ref name=infoplease/>
* ''The Complete Poems of C. Day-Lewis'' (1992)<ref name=bbc/>
* Editor (with [[L. A. G. Strong]]): ''A New Anthology of Modern Verse 1920–1940'' (1941)
* Editor (with [[John Lehmann]]): ''The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry 1915–1955'' (1956)

===Essay collections===

* ''A Hope for Poetry'' (1934)<ref name=infoplease/>
* ''Poetry for You'' (1944)
* ''The Poetic Image'' (1947)

===Translations===

*[[Virgil]]'s ''[[Georgics]]'' (1940)<ref>An extract from this, "Orpheus and Eurydice", appeared in ''[[The Queen's Book of the Red Cross]]''.</ref>
*[[Paul Valéry]]'s ''Le Cimetière Marin'' (1946)
*Virgil's ''[[Aeneid]]'' (1952)
*Virgil's ''[[Eclogues]]'' (1963)<ref name=bbc/><ref name=infoplease/>

===Novels written under his own name===

===Novels===

* ''The Friendly Tree'' (1936) 
* ''Starting Point'' (1937)
* ''Child of Misfortune'' (1939)

===Novels for children===

* Dick Willoughby (1933)
* ''[[The Otterbury Incident]]'' (1948)

===Novels written as Nicholas Blake===

===[[Nigel Strangeways]]===

* ''[[A Question of Proof]]'' (1935); First US edition by Harper and Brothers (1935) 
* ''[[Thou Shell of Death]]'' (1936; First US edition by Harper and Brothers published as ''Shell of Death'') (1936)
* ''[[There's Trouble Brewing]]'' (1937)
* ''[[The Beast Must Die (novel)|The Beast Must Die]]'' (1938), adapted for the cinema by [[Román Viñoly Barreto]] in Argentina (1952) and by [[Claude Chabrol]] in France (1969), and in Britain in 2021 as ''[[The Beast Must Die (TV series)|The Beast Must Die]]'' television series.
* ''[[The Smiler with the Knife]]'' (1939). Serialised ''[[News Chronicle]]'', 1939
* ''Malice in Wonderland'' (1940; also published as ''Murder with Malice''. U.S. title: ''The Summer Camp Mystery'')
* ''[[The Case of the Abominable Snowman]]'' (1941; also published as ''The Corpse in the Snowman'')
* ''[[Minute for Murder]]'' (1947)
* ''[[Head of a Traveller]]'' (1949)
* ''[[The Dreadful Hollow]]'' (1953)
* ''[[The Whisper in the Gloom]]'' (1954; also published as ''Catch and Kill'')
* ''[[End of Chapter]]'' (1957)
* ''[[The Widow's Cruise]]'' (1959)
* ''[[The Worm of Death]]'' (1961)
* ''[[The Sad Variety]]'' (1964)
* ''[[The Morning after Death]]'' (1966)

===Non-series novels===

* ''[[A Tangled Web (1956 novel)|A Tangled Web]]'' (1956; also published as ''Death and Daisy Bland'')
* ''[[A Penknife in My Heart]]'' (1958)
* ''[[The Deadly Joker]]'' (1963)
* ''[[The Private Wound]]'' (1968)

===Short stories===

* "A Slice of Bad Luck" (''[[The Bystander]]'', 1 December 1935. Reprinted in ''Detection Medley'', ed. John Rhode [Hutchinson, 1939]. Also published as "The Assassin's Club". Reprinted in ''Murder by the Book'', ed. Martin Edwards, 2021)
* "Mr Prendergast and the Orange" (''Sunday Dispatch'', 27 March 1938. Reprinted in ''Bodies from the Library'', Volume 3, ed. Tony Medawar [2020]. Also published as "Conscience Money".)
* "It Fell to Earth" (''[[The Strand Magazine]]'', June 1944. Also published as "Long Shot". Reprinted in ''Murder at the Manor'', ed. Martin Edwards, 2016)
* "The Snow Line" (''The Strand Magazine'', February 1949. Also published as "A Study in White" and "A Problem in White". Reprinted in ''Silent Night'', ed. Martin Edwards, 2015)
* "Sometimes the Blind See the Clearest" (''[[Evening Standard]]'', 18 March 1963. Also published as "Sometimes the Blind". Reprinted in ''The Long Arm of the Law'', ed. Martin Edwards, 2017)

===Radio plays===

* ''Calling James Braithwaite''. BBC Home Service, 20 and 22 July 1940. (Published in ''Bodies from the Library'', Volume 1, edited by Tony Medawar [2018].)

===Autobiography===

* ''The Buried Day'' (1960)