Auden, Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, and Louis MacNeice.

UNESCO: The Uses of Richard Hoggart

Professor Levi rightly hands the palm to Dryden (though he also recommends Cecil Day Lewis's tremendous translation of the Aeneid from 1954), but this lends his Virgil an 18th-century air, with Swains and Cotts and woodland Frolicks.

ECONOMIST: Classical poetry

Cecil Day-Lewis was one of the most notable Anglo-Irish poets of the 20th Century.

BBC: Cecil Day-Lewis