Drummond Allison

Ross Davies (Independent Scholar - Europe)
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Perhaps not since Rupert Brooke has a war poet so inspired as many fellow-poets as Drummond Allison, who was killed on the Italian front in December 1943. Allison was twenty-two, and had been in harm’s way for just two weeks less one day. He met his death leading an infantry attack over a few yards of ground more reminiscent of the Kaiser’s than Hitler’s War. Ever since, fellow-poets have paid tribute to Allison’s energy, charm and vigorous, even audacious verse.

Allison left behind just one collection, The Yellow Night (1944), yet fellow-poets who have written verse in tribute to him include Robert Conquest, Robert Greacen (two poems), Sidney Keyes, John Lehmann, Roy McFadden, David Wright and David Kessel. In memoirs, John Heath-Stubbs, Michael Meyer and (again) David Wright are

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Citation: Davies, Ross. "Drummond Allison". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 January 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12600, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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