Collected Poems

Lewis, Alun

ISBN 10: 185411011X / ISBN 13: 9781854110114

Edité par Seren, 1995

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Light wear only to boards, faint tanning to page edges, but pages are clean, binding is tight. Unclipped dust jacket has some general wear including some edge wear, surface wear. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day. NB: Due to the utter stupidity of Brexit, parcels sent to the EU may incur customs charges.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Collected Poems
• Éditeur: Seren
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 185411011X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781854110114
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good/Very Good Plus
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

Alun Lewis is acknowledged as one of the best British writers of World War II. This collection brings together his uncollected poems, as well as his books, "Raider's Dawn" and "Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets". This is the third volume in a uniform edition of his writings.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Alun Lewis (1915-1944), the remarkable poet and story writer, died, aged 28, in Burma during the Second World War. Some critics see him as the last of the great Romantic poets, a twentieth century Keats. Others view him as the bridge between pre-war poets like Auden and Yeats to post-war poets such as Hughes and Gunn. He was born and raised in Depression-struck south Wales and, following degrees in history at Aberystwyth and Manchester, became a teacher there. Early in 1940, despite his pacifist inclinations he enlisted and, after long periods of training, joined the war in India.

Becoming a soldier galvanised Lewis s writing. By 1944 he had written two collections of poems and one of short stories, all published to considerable acclaim. Firmly established with Keith Douglas as the leading writer of the Second World War, Lewis s death in an accident while on active service was huge loss to English literature. This Collected Poems comprises a body of work which has endured and which transcends the label war poetry ; it is complete in itself and full of promise of greater things.