Alun Lewis: Collected Poems

Ed. Cary Archard

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 …

"Always, one feels the pressure of integrity behind his writing. And in elegising Lewis´s promise we should not overlook his actual achievement …"

M Wynn Thomas, The Guardian, Feb 2008; Click HERE to read the full review.

Alun Lewis: Letters to my Wife

Gweno Lewis

Alun Lewis (1915-1944) was one of the few great British writers of the Second World War. His early death at the age of twenty-eight robbed Wales of its most promising poet and story writer …

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