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Morlais

AvAlun Lewis,John Pikoulis

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Morlais is Alun Lewis’s unpublished novel from the late 1930s. The Lawrentian story of a young boy growing up in the poverty stricken industrial valleys of south Wales, it is also reflects Lewis’ own experiences, particularly his search for self knowledge and his conviction that he would be a writer. Miner’s son Morlais Jenkins is already being educated away from his background at grammar school when he is adopted, on the death of her own son, by the wife of the local local colliery owner. Morlais’ parents recognize the opportunity for their son to make a better future, but they must all pay a great price. Stifled by middle class life, his adoptive mother recognizes that Morlais will be a poet and encourages him to be neither working class or middle class, but true to his talent. Full of vivid descriptive passages of life in the fictional mining valley, and centred on the conflicted character of Morlais and the decisions he faces over his two families, his two social backgrounds, and his desire to be a poet, the novel is an enthralling journey through the life of a young boy becoming a young man. Alun Lewis (1915-1944) was the outstanding writer of World War II and Morlais, written in his mid twenties, is an early indication of the talented writer he would become just five years later.

Alun Lewis: Letter to my Wife

AvAlun Lewis

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Soldier and poet Alun Lewis wrote frequently to his family, friends and other writers such as Robert Graves. Mostly these letters are uncollected. Those that have been published received high praise, and were compared to Keats's letters by critic Walter Allen. Letters to My Wife includes over 240 letters to his wife Gweno Ellis, beginning with his enlistment and continuing until his death in Burma in 1944. From them emerges a unique account of daily army life, of the phoney war in Britain and with descriptions of the journey to India via Brazil and South Africa. The letters also shed light on Lewis' development to become the writer of World War Two, with first hand references to his popular poems and stories, how they originated and how they were first published. Above all, Lewis's letters testify to his love for his war bride Gweno, whom he married in July 1941 before embarkation. Letters to My Wife is the story of Alun Lewis's war.

Alun Lewis - Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets: "And one by one, reluctantly, The living come back slowly from the dead"

"And one by one, reluctantly, The living come back slowly from the dead"

AvAlun Lewis

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

218 kr

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Alun Lewis was born on 1st July 1915 at Cwmaman, near Aberdare in the Cynon Valley in the South Wales Coalfield.

His parents were both school teachers at llanwern. Lewis was one of four children; a younger sister, and two brothers.

He was enthusiastic about writing from an early age. Lewis won a scholarship to attend Cowbridge Grammar School and from there went on to the University College of Wales and obtained a first in history in 1935. From there he went to the University of Manchester on a Pickles Research Fellowship and obtained his M.A in 1937.

Lewis first tried his hand at journalism but when he didn’t succeed he turned to work as a supply teacher.

In 1939, Lewis met Gweno Ellis, a teacher, whom he later married on 5th July 1941.

Lewis was committed to pacifism but with the outbreak of World War II these principles were overcome by his desire to confront and defeat the evils of fascism. Enlisting, in 1940, he joined the Royal Engineers but then for reasons unknown he sought and gained a commission in an infantry battalion.

In 1941 he collaborated with artists John Petts and Brenda Chamberlain on the ‘Caseg broadsheets’. These were inspired by chapbooks and broadside ballads and featured original woodcut artwork by Petts and poetry from prominent Welsh poets of the time including Dylan Thomas. Lewis was keen to create affordable literature for the masses. Unfortunately, sales were few and funds soon ran out.

His first published book, in 1942, was the poetry collection ‘Raider''s Dawn and Other Poems’. The same year a collection of short stories, ‘The Last Inspection’ followed. To round out the year he was dispatched to India to serve with the 6th Battalion of the South Wales Borderers.

Lewis'' poems about the war and his experiences certainly relay and explore many facets. His poetry is testament to his talents that have him rightly regarded as one of Britain’s most promising War Poets albeit on the thinnest of publications.

By 1944 he was a lieutenant in Burma fighting the Japanese. What followed next has been interpreted in several ways. On 5th March 1944 he was found, with a gun shot wound to the head, near the officer’s toilets. One account says he had been washing and shaving and then, it seems, tripped and accidentally shot himself. Indeed, that was the official version written up by the army. Another, and perhaps more plausible account classes it as a suicide, the gun was still in his hand. Fatally wounded he survived for another 6 hours.

Whatever the truth as to how or why Alun Lewis died on March 5th, 1944. He was 28.

Letters to My Wife

AvAlun Lewis

Inbunden, Engelska, 1989

165 kr

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Collected Stories of Alun Lewis

AvAlun Lewis,Cary Archard

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

178 kr

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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. Although he had been writing since an early age, becoming a soldier had a stimulating effect on Lewis's writing: his first book of poems, Raiders' Dawn, was published in 1942, and The Last Inspection, a collection of stories, appeared in the same year, alerting critics and editors to the arrival of a new war writer. Both books are characterised by vivid realism and emotional power.Later in 1942 Lewis's new regiment, the South Wales Borderers, travelled to India. His experiences there are recreated in the beautiful poems of Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets and the stories and letters of In the Green Tree. On the reputation of these four books Alun Lewis is widely seen, with Keith Douglas, as the outstanding writer of World War Two.Collected Stories reprints the war stories in their entirety for the first time. It also collects stories published in student magazines and newspapers such as The Guardian, together with several previously unseen. In bringing together all this material, editor Cary Archard shows Lewis's development from remarkable schoolboy writer to mature and established author whose stories appeared in magazines such as Horizon and Lilliput. "... one of the mightiest poets and fiction writers of the twentieth century... a superb Collected Stories" Richard Simpson, Tar River Poetry"So lyrical, so larky, that, almost unconsciously, one starts to read them aloud to an empty room"Sunday Times"Each story is a gem, full of wise understanding of human experience, and deeply moving"PN Review"Stories of such artistry that one is inclined to reread them immediately to savour the moments they capture" Publishers' WeeklyAlun 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.

Library of Wales: In the Green Tree

AvAlun Lewis

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

107 kr

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Cypress Walk. Letters from Alun Lewis to Freda Aykroyd

AvAlun Lewis

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

220 kr

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In July 1943, the young Welsh poet and soldier Alun Lewis arrived on sick leave at the house near Madras of Freda Aykroyd, a devotee of literature. Lewis and Aykroyd fell in love instantly. Their affair inspired some of the finest of his wartime poems as well as a cache of letters. This work publishes those letters.

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Alun Lewis – författare

Morlais

Alun Lewis: Letter to my Wife

Alun Lewis - Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets: "And one by one, reluctantly, The living come back slowly from the dead"

Letters to My Wife

Collected Stories of Alun Lewis

Library of Wales: In the Green Tree

Cypress Walk. Letters from Alun Lewis to Freda Aykroyd

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