Alun Lewis: Collected Stories

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Lewis, Alun

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Alun Lewis: Collected Stories brings together all the stories of the war poet, from juvenalia to those written as a soldier in India before his death on active service. It shows the development of a writer on whose work the war had a galvanizing effect, and who was producing some of the outstanding writing of the war, in Britain and the East.

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-78172-300-5

ProduktartBuch

EinbandKartoniert, Paperback

VerlagPoetry Wales PressSeren

ErscheinungsortBridgend

ErscheinungslandVereinigtes Königreich

Erscheinungsdatum01.07.2015

SpracheEnglisch

Artikel-Nr.3729875

KatalogNielsen

Datenquelle-Nr.9781781723005

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Lewis, Alun

Alun Lewis, (1915-1944), the remarkable poet and short story writer, died, aged 28, in Burma in the Second World War. Some critics see him as the last of the great Romantic poets, a twentieth century Keats. Others describe his poetry as the path from pre-war Yeats and Auden to post-war poets like Hughes and Gunn. In Wales there are those who think his greater versatility and finer intelligence place him above his contemporaries Dylan Thomas and R.S. Thomas. Born and brought up near Aberdare in south Wales, Lewis read history at Aberystwyth and Manchester. After a brief period teaching and despite pacifist inclinations, he enlisted in the Royal Engineers. He later joined the South Wales Borderers and was posted to India. Becoming a soldier had a stimulating effect on Lewis's writing: Raiders' Dawn, a collection of forty-seven poems, appeared in 1942 and early in 1943, The Last Inspection, a book of short stories, was published, both to considerable critical acclaim. Lewis died in an accident on active service in Burma in 1944. His second volume of poems, Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets, was published in 1945 and his Indian short stories, together with some letters, in In The Green Tree (1948).