Poetry please!

'From the floor of the Axe valley, it looks like a white dot. Looking out to sea halfway up the eastern slope, almost hidden by trees and hedgerows, is Brimclose, the cottage Cecil Day-Lewis and his wife Mary bought for £1,600 in 1938,' wrote biographer Peter Stanford in last weekend's Sunday Times review section.
All well and good. But Stanford continues: 'Day-Lewis, who later became poet laureate but is now perhaps best known as the father of Daniel Day-Lewis, the actor, was at the time among the most prominent young literary figures in Britain.'

The Daniel Day-Lewis factoid pops up several more times in the article, as if attempting to hold the reader's interest, including a picture of DDL starring in Last Of The Mohicans. One might expect Sunday Times review readers to have a vague inkling of who Cecil Day-Lewis is. If they don't, they should, and not simply for who he spawned. What's most disappointing, however, is that the Sunday Times review section subs and editor clearly believe that Cecil Day-Lewis being DDL's papa is a huge selling point for the piece, when in fact it bears very little relevance to the stage in CDL's life that is being written about.