index ‘What’s Become of Wystan?’ 635
Larrea,Juan 514
Lasker-Wallfisch 597
Lasky, Melvin L. 644
Lawrence, D. H. 365
‘The Blind Man’ 78
Lawson, Peter 611
Leavis, F. R. 546
Ledward, Patricia 431, 433, 440
Lee, Joseph 161–4
and broadening of sympathies 164
and influences on 163–4
and use of dialect 164
‘Ancestry’ 164
Ballads of Battle161, 163
‘Piou-Piou’ 163
Poems: Tales o’ Our Town161, 163
‘The Bullet’ 162
‘The Green Grass’ 162
‘The Waukrife Wyverns’ 161–2
‘Tommy and Fritz’ 163–4
Work-A-Day Warriors161, 163, 164
Leed, Eric 76
Left Book Club 248
Lehmann, John 246, 247, 248
on Spender 254, 257
Poems for Spain247, 364, 430–1
The Whispering Gallery 247
Leighton, Roland 155
Lenin, V. I. 276
Leslie, Mary E. 21
Letts, Winifred M. 109–10
Levertov, Denise 599
and Duncan-Levertov correspondence 655
‘During the Eichmann Trial’ 596
‘Life at War’ 647–8
‘Talk in the Dark’ 647
‘Tenebrae’ 655
Levi, Primo 442, 593, 598
Lewis, Alun 359–60, 363, 424, 433, 434, 439
and Christian iconography 303–5
and Edward Thomas 300
and floral imagery 301–2
and hetero-eroticism 308–10
‘All Day It Has Rained’ 219, 308, 355, 375
‘Finale’ 304–5
‘Goodbye’ 308
‘Indian Day’ 309
‘Last Pages of a Long Journal’ 304
‘Lines on a Tudor Mansion’ 303–4, 305
‘Raiders’ Dawn’ 304, 308
‘The Crucifixion’ 305
‘The Journey’ 309
‘The Sentry’ 301
‘Threnody for a Starry Night’ 301–2
Lewis, C. S. 404
Lewis, Saunders 342, 343
Lewis, Wyndham 75, 191
Liberalism:
andFirstWorldWar 194–6
and reason 195–6
and reasonableness 197
Liddell Hart, Basil 121
Liddiard, Jean 543, 545
lily, and Second World War poetry 301–2, 303
Lindsay, Maurice 315
Littlejohn, W. E. 427
Litvinoff, Emanuel 594, 599
‘To T. S. Eliot’ 594
Lloyd, Bertram 429
Lloyd, David 238
Llywelyn-Williams, Alis 352
Llywelyn-Williams, Alun
and background of 341–2
and Berlin poems 352–6
and creative conflict 361
and cynicism of young 346–7
and despair 344
and early Welsh war poetry 349–50
and experience of war 351–2
and hopes for improvement from war 345–6
and independence of 360
and love 347–8
and military service 343
and personality 361
and poetic output 343–4
and political disillusionment 344–5
and political lies 347
and reconciliation 356–7
and role of the poet 359
and social causes 360–1
andTir Newydd(New Territory) 341–2
andvers libre 360
on war poetry 349, 357
and in wartime London 345–8
and wartime poetry 348–52
and Welsh culture 342
and Welsh literary tradition 359–60
and Welsh poetry 342
and Welsh-language poets and World War
II 340–1
and work at BBC 342–3, 345
‘After Listening to the Doctor’s Advice’ 344
‘After the Conflict’ 346
‘Ballad of the Phantoms’ 356, 358
‘Blaen Cwm Gwdi’ 345
‘Cefn Cwn Bychan’ 347–8