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Three writers emerged with literary reputations during the Second World War: Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis and Sidney Keyes. Others who wrote well-known poems — among them Henry Reed and F. T. Prince — did not produce the same substantial body of work. Since then, Keyes has faded fast, leaving interest divided between Douglas, polished and theatrical, and Lewis, more anguished and complex.
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Keith Douglas, Complete Poems, ed. Desmond Graham (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979) p. 24. Hereinafter, all references to this edition are included in the text with the citation CP.
Desmond Graham, Keith Douglas 1920–1944 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974) p. 105. Hereinafter, all references to this volume are included in the text with the citation KD.
See Alamein to Zem Zem, ed. Desmond Graham (Oxford: Oxford University Press, first published 1966). For a critical evaluation of Douglas, see Ted Hughes, ‘The Poetry of Keith Douglas’, Critical Quarterly, Spring 1963, pp. 43–8.
See Alamein to Zem Zem, ed. Desmond Graham (Oxford: Oxford University Press, first published 1966). For a critical evaluation of Douglas, see Ted Hughes, ‘The Poetry of Keith Douglas’, Critical Quarterly, Spring 1963, pp. 43–8.
John Pikoulis, Alun Lewis, A Life (Bridgend: Seren, second edition 1991) p. 154.
Alun Lewis, Letters to My Wife, ed. Gweno Lewis (Bridgend: Seren, 1989) p. 206.
Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning (London: Dent, 1954) p. 151.
Alun Lewis, A Miscellany of his Writings, ed. John Pikoulis (Bridgend: Poetry Wales Press, 1982) p. 132ff. Hereinafter AMW.
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Pikoulis, J. (1995). The Poetry of the Second World War. In: Day, G., Docherty, B. (eds) British Poetry, 1900–50. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24000-5_12
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