Alun Lewis (poet)

Alun Lewis (1 July 1915 – 5 March 1944) was a Welsh poet. He is one of the best-known English-language war poets of the Second World War. His poetry centers around a "recurring obsession with the themes of isolation and death."

Alun Lewis
Born(1915-07-01)1 July 1915
Cwmaman, Wales
Died5 March 1944(1944-03-05) (aged 28)
Burma
OccupationWriter, teacher, soldier
NationalityWelsh
Period1942–1944
Notable works
  • Raiders' Dawn and other poems (1942)
Spouse
Gweno Lewis
(m. 1941, died)
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