Alun Lewis
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Alun Lewis (June 1915 to March 1944) was a Welsh poet.
He is one of the most well-known English-language poets of the Second World War.
Life and work
Alun Lewis was born in Cwmaman, near Aberdare in the South Wales Coalfields' Cynon Valley. Thomas John and Gwladys Lewis, Jr., were school teachers at Llanwern, and he and his younger sister, Mair and two brothers, were among their children. By the time he received a scholarship to attend Cowbridge Grammar School, he was already interested in writing. He continued to study at Aberystwyth University and the University of Manchester. Despite being born in South Wales, he wrote in English only.
Lewis was unsuccessful as a journalist and gained his income as a supply teacher rather than as a journalist. Even though Lynette Roberts' poem "Llanybri" is an invitation to him to visit her house, she married Keidrych Rhys. Lewis met Gweno Meverid Ellis, a tutor who married on July 5th 1941, who died in 1939.
Lewis first joined the British Engineers as a Private because he was a pacifist, but he also wanted to combat fascism. However, he later applied for and received a commission in an infantry battalion. He collaborated with artists John Petts and Brenda Chamberlain on the "Caseg broadsheets" in 1941. Raider's Dawn and Other Poetry (1942), his first published book, was followed by a collection of short stories, The Last Inspection (1942). He was sent by the 6th battalion South Wales Borderers to India in 1942.
Lewis' poems about his war experiences have been described as "his brooding over his army experiences and trying to grasp and hold some hope that would illuminate its desolation with meaning" (see Ian Hamilton's poem "To Edward Thomas" is dedicated to the poet.
Lewis died on March 5th, 1944, during the Burma campaign against the Imperial Japanese Army. He was found shot in the head after shaving and washing near the officers' latrines with his revolver in his hand, and died as a result of his wound six hours later. Despite the fact that it was a case of suicide, a court of inquiry ruled that he tripped and that the shooting was accidental. He is buried at Taukkyan War Cemetery.