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Letters to My Wife

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Description:Soldier and poet Alun Lewis (1915-1944) was an inveterate letter writer who wrote regularly to family, friends and other writers such as Robert Graves. Where they have been published they have attracted wide praise for their humanity and spontaneity, and have been compared by critics to the letters of Keats.This paperback edition of Letters to My Wife is published to mark Lewis’s centenary. It collects over 240 letters to his wife Gweno Ellis, beginning with his sudden enlistment and continuing until his untimely death on active service in Burma in March 1944. In them the reader is given a unique account of day to day army life, for officers and other ranks, in Britain and the Far East. The descriptions of the dreariness of long years of training in Britain in advance of a European front are as revealing as those of response the journey to India via Brazil and South Africa, and Lewis’ response to the culture shock of India. The insights into service life are authentic and illuminating. As are the insights into Lewis’s character – his inclination towards depression, his conflicted pacifism at the beginning of the war, his unwillingness (and innate unsuitability) to becoming an officer, and, in India his efforts to cheer Gweno having met (we now understand) his muse in Freda Aykroyd. Lewis’s letters testify to his love for his war bride Gweno, whom he married in July 1941 before embarkation.The letters also shed light on Lewis the writer – he would become the writer of World War Two. Here are his thoughts on poems and stories as they developed and were published, and his excitement at the critical and public response to a burgeoning talent. They also reveal in sometimes devastating detail Lewis’ struggle to become an artist.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Letters to My Wife. To get started finding Letters to My Wife, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 438

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Seren Books

Release: 2015

ISBN: 178172301X

Description: Soldier and poet Alun Lewis (1915-1944) was an inveterate letter writer who wrote regularly to family, friends and other writers such as Robert Graves. Where they have been published they have attracted wide praise for their humanity and spontaneity, and have been compared by critics to the letters of Keats.This paperback edition of Letters to My Wife is published to mark Lewis’s centenary. It collects over 240 letters to his wife Gweno Ellis, beginning with his sudden enlistment and continuing until his untimely death on active service in Burma in March 1944. In them the reader is given a unique account of day to day army life, for officers and other ranks, in Britain and the Far East. The descriptions of the dreariness of long years of training in Britain in advance of a European front are as revealing as those of response the journey to India via Brazil and South Africa, and Lewis’ response to the culture shock of India. The insights into service life are authentic and illuminating. As are the insights into Lewis’s character – his inclination towards depression, his conflicted pacifism at the beginning of the war, his unwillingness (and innate unsuitability) to becoming an officer, and, in India his efforts to cheer Gweno having met (we now understand) his muse in Freda Aykroyd. Lewis’s letters testify to his love for his war bride Gweno, whom he married in July 1941 before embarkation.The letters also shed light on Lewis the writer – he would become the writer of World War Two. Here are his thoughts on poems and stories as they developed and were published, and his excitement at the critical and public response to a burgeoning talent. They also reveal in sometimes devastating detail Lewis’ struggle to become an artist.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Letters to My Wife. To get started finding Letters to My Wife, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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