Wyndham Lewis is different and not related. WyndhamLewis was primarily a painter (good I think) but he also wrote novels, unreadable to me, and indulged in controversy. A powerful, not altogether nice man. I think Woolf may have despised, or hated, Wyndham Lewis because of his very right-wing politics. In otherwords they were enemies. Day Lewis was the fourth in the Macspaunday crew identified by Roy Campbell, MacNeice,Spender, Auden and Day Lewis, all leftist poets who either went or said they would go to fight in the Spanish Civil War on the Nationalist side against Franco. Campbell was pro-Franco because of his Catholicism. So Daniel would have grown up in that sort of bookish, free-thinking, left wing household. I THINK, though Iam not sure about this, that his mother, the one his father was unfaithful to, was, or had been an actress.
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