Ffeil 1. - Poems published in Raiders' Dawn and Other Poems

Manuscript and typescript drafts, fair copies, transcripts, and in some instances earlier versions of poems published in Raiders' Dawn and other poems (London, Allen & Unwin, 1942). The poems are listed in the order in which they appear in the published volume: a copy of the engraving 'Alun Lewis' by John Petts, 1941, used as cover illustration and frontispiece (f. 1); publisher's blurb (f. 2); list of contents - 2 Copies (ff. 3-6); Prologue: The Grinder [Prelude: The Grinder] (ff. 7-12); Raiders' Dawn [Night Raid] [Draft poem 'A Separation' (see ff. 157-159) on f. 13 verso] (ff. 13-15); All Day It Has Rained (ff. 16-18); The Soldier [II; Soldier's April] (ff. 19-24); The Public Gardens (ff. 25-33); The Sentry [Night] [cf. f. 178 verso] (ff. 34-39); To Edward Thomas (ff. 40-46); Odi et Amo (ff. 47-53); Lines on a Tudor Mansion (ff. 54-57); To a Comrade in Arms [To One] (ff. 58-60); Finale (ff. 61-64); The Defeated (ff. 65-68); Parable [The Kill] (ff. 69-72); After Dunkirk (ff. 73-86); From a Play [Chorus; Chorus from the Eumenides] (ff. 87-99); Threnody for a Starry Night (ff. 100-115); Christmas Holiday [cf. f. 120 verso] (ff. 116-117); Two Legends: For Greece [Draft poem 'Xmas Holiday 1941' (see ff. 116-117) on f. 120 verso] (ff. 118-121); On a Bereaved Girl [cf. MS 18, f. 55] (ff. 122-129); Peace [The Wind Blows...; Through Her Eyes] (ff. 130-139); Easter at Christmas (ff. 140-141); Post-Script: For Gweno [Love Letter: New Style (July 1940); To G...] (ff. 142-149); Fever [Poem] (ff. 150-151); The Desperate (f. 152); Midwinter (ff. 153-155); Valediction (f. 156); A Separation [cf. f. 13 verso] (ff. 157-159); War Wedding (ff. 160-173); Miniature on a Book of Hours [Miniature from a Book of Hours] (ff. 174-177); The Dancer [Autograph poem 'The Sentry' (see ff. 34-39) on f. 178 verso] (f. 178); Songs for the Night [Night-Piece; Catalan Night] (ff. 179-182); Songs of Sleep [Song of Sleep] [note from Alun Lewis to Gweno Lewis on f. 183] (ff. 183-184); Autumn, 1939 [November, 1939] (ff. 185-186); The Encounter (ff. 187-188); The Captivity [cf. MS 18, ff. 50 verso-54 verso] (ff. 189-192); Poems from the Chinese (ff. 193-196); The Odyssey (ff. 197-207); The Swan's Way [Swan's Way] (ff. 208-210); Horace at Twenty (f. 211); The Madman (ff. 212-217); The Mountain over Aberdare [On the Welsh Mountains; Evening in a Welsh Mining Village] (ff. 218-229); The Rhondda [River Rhondda] [cf. MS 18, f. 84] (ff. 230-232); Destruction (ff. 233-234); Lines on a Young Girl (ff. 235-238); Atropos to Ophelia (ff. 239-240); The Humanist (f. 241); The East (ff. 242-243).