Collected Poems: Alun Lewis - Softcover

Lewis, Alun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185411011X ISBN 13: 9781854110114

Publisher: Seren, 1995

Synopsis

Alun Lewis, (1915-1944), the remarkable poet and short story writer, died, aged twenty-eight, 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.
This volume contains the complete texts of Raiders' Dawn and Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets in the way Lewis organized them. It also includes twenty-seven more poems some of which have never been published before. Lewis's Collected Poems is a body of poetry that will last, that transcends the label 'war poetry': it is both complete in itself and full of the promise of greater things.

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After Dunkirk
All Day It Has Rained
The Assault Convoy
Atropos To Ophelia
Autumn, 1939
Belief
Beloved Beware
Bequest
Bivouac
Burma Casualty
By The Gateway Of India: Bombay
The Captivity
Christmas Holiday
Compassion
Corfe Castle
The Crucifixion
The Dancer
Dawn On The East Coast
The Defeated: For Wales
The Departure
The Desperate
Destruction
The East
Easter At Christmas
Encirclement
The Encounter
Fever
Finale
A Fragment
From A Play
Goodbye
Greetings
Holi
Home Thoughts From Abroad
Horace At Twenty
The Humanist
In Hospital: Poona (1)
In Hospital: Poona (2)
Indian Day
Indolence
Infantry
The Island
Jason And Medea
The Journey
The Jungle
Karanje Village
Lady In Black
Lament
Letter From The Cape
Lines On A Tudor Mansion
Lines On A Young Girl
The Madman
The Mahratta Ghats
Mid-winter
Midnight In India
Miniature On A Book Of Hours
Monologue
Motifs
The Mountain Over Aberdare
Observation Post: Forward Area
Odi Et Amo
The Odyssey
Olwen And Taliesin
On A Bereaved Girl
On Embarkation
On Leave: Marriage
On The Welsh Mountains
Parable
Pastorals
The Patrol
Peace
Peasant Song
The Peasants
Poems From The Chinese
Port Of Call: Brazil
Post-script: For Gweno
Prelude And Fugue
Prologue: The Grinder
The Public Gardens
The Quest
The Raid
Raiders' Dawn
Renewal
The Rhondda
The River Temple: Wai
The Run-in
Sacco Writes To His Son
The Sentry
A Separation
Shadows
The Slug
The Soldier
Song
Song
Song
Song: On Seeing Dead Bodies Floating Off The Cape
Songs For The Night
Songs Of Sleep
Sonnet (aboard A Troopship) To Gweno
The Soubrettes
Southend At Dusk
The Suicide
The Swan's Way
The Swimmer
Threnody For A Starry Night
The Tiger Of Camden Town
To A Comrade In Arms
To Edward Thomas
To Rilke
Troopship In The Tropics
Two Legends: For Greece
The Unknown Soldier
Valediction
Village Funeral: Maharashtra
War Wedding
Water Music
The Way Back
Ways
A Welsh Night
Westminster Abbey
Wood Song
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Seren
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 185411011X
• ISBN 13: 9781854110114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206