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ALLDRITT, KEITH

Keith Alldritt is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is English by birth and Canadian by adoption. Keith has taught Anglo–Welsh literature in the United States and Canada and has published several articles on Welsh literature in literary periodicals and journals. He has published ten books including studies of George Orwell, T S Eliot, and the literature of the Second World War. Keith has written a biography of David Jones (Constable and Robinson, 2003) and his Modernism in the Second World War (P. Lang, 1989) contains a long section on the poetry of Alun Lewis. He is Professor Emeritus in the University of British Columbia in Vancouver but is presently based in Lichfield in Staffordshire. Keith returns to North America often and is undertaking several new writing projects including one on the rhetorical tradition to which Aneurin Bevan belonged. Keith is a full member of Academi.

Selected Publications:
The Making of George Orwell: An Essay in Literary History (Edward Arnold, 1969)
The Visual Imagination of D.H Lawrence (Edward Arnold, 1971)
The Good Pit Man: A Novel (Deutsch, 1976)
The Lover Next Door (Deutsch, 1977)
Eliot’s ’Four Quartets’: Poetry as Chamber Music (Woburn Press, 1978)
Modernism in the Second World War: The Late Poetry of Ezra Pound, T.S Eliot, Basil Bunting and Hugh MacDiarmid  (P. Lang, 1989)
Churchill the Writer: The Life of an Author (Century, 1993)
The Greatest of Friends: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill 1941–1945 (St. Martin’s Press, 1995)
W.B Yeats: The Man and the Milieu (John Murray, 1997)
Poet as Spy: The Life and Wild Times of Basil Bunting (Aurum Press, 1998)
David Jones: A Life (Constable and Robinson, 2003)