Alun Lewis
(1915-1944)

poet

Died aged c. 29

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."

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Commemorated on 3 plaques

Bardd ac awdur a fu'n byw yma yn blentyn Alun Lewis 1915-1944 the childhood home of the poet and writer

61 Brynhyfryd, Cwmaman, United Kingdom where they lived

Alun Lewis born 1915 died in Burma 1944 poet and short story writer of repute. Boarder at Cowbridge Grammar School 1928-1931

old Cowbridge Grammar School, Cowbridge, United Kingdom where they studied (1928-1931)

The poet Alun Lewis was born in this house on the 1st July 1915. "I watch the clouded years, Rune the rough foreheads of these moody hills, this wet evening is a lost age."

16 Llanwonno Road, Cwmaman, United Kingdom where they was born (1915)