Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
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The most important Welsh poet of the twentieth century, Thomas was born in Swansea, about which he remembered unkindly "the smug darkness of a provincial town." He attended Swansea Grammar School but received his real education in the extensive library of his father, a disappointed schoolteacher visa mer with higher ambitions. Refusing university study in favor of immediately becoming a professional writer, Thomas worked first in Swansea and then in London at a variety of literary jobs, which included journalism and, eventually, filmscripts and radio plays. In 1936 he began the satisfying but stormy marriage to the bohemian writer and dancer Caitlin MacNamara that would endure for the rest of his career. His life fell into a pattern of oscillation between work and dissipation in London and recovery and relaxation in a rural retreat, usually in Wales. Thomas worked in a documentary film unit during the war. Besides his poetry, he wrote plays and fiction. In the early 1950s, he gave three celebrated poetry-reading tours of the United States, during which his outrageous behavior vied with his superb reading ability for public attention. Aggravated by chronic alcoholism, his health collapsed during the last tour, and he died in a New York City hospital. In his poetry, Thomas embraced an exuberant romanticism in the encounter between self and world and a joyous riot in the lushness of language. His work falls into three periods---an early "womb-tomb" phase during which he produced a notebook, which he later mined for further poems, a middle one troubled by marriage and war, and a final acceptance of the human condition. The exuberant rhetoric of his work belies an equally strong devotion to artistry, what he once called "my craft or sullen art." His great "Fern Hill," for example, builds its imagery of the rejoicing innocence of childhood on a strict and demanding syllabic count. A recollection of boyhood holidays on the farm of his aunt and uncle, that poem places its emotion within an Edenic framework typical of Thomas's work. The impressive sonnet sequence "Altarwise by Owl-Light" (1936) combines the internal quest of romanticism with a more elaborate religious outlook in tracing the birth and spiritual autobiography of a poet. Almost at the end of his career he produced the moving elegy "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" (1952), written during the final illness of his father. Despite his periods of doubt and dissipation, Thomas celebrated the fullness of life. As he wrote in a note to his Collected Poems (1952), "These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusion, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren't." (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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(eng) Full name Dylan Marlais Thomas. On combining works of this author: Please take note that editions of the "Poems" can be different works (selections as opposed to complete works). Identical titles alone do not indicate identical works.
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Verk av Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night 22 exemplar
Collected Prose of Dylan Thomas: Adventures in the Skin Trade; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog; Quite Early One… (1960) 11 exemplar
Dylan Thomas Reads: And Death Shall Have No Dominion, a Winter's Tale, on Reading Poetry Aloud and Other Selections (1992) 10 exemplar
Twenty-five poems 8 exemplar
A mão ao assinar este papel 8 exemplar
Collected Poems (Everyman Paperbacks) 6 exemplar
Svlékání tmy : Výbor z veršů 4 exemplar
New Poems 3 exemplar
In the Direction of the Beginning 2 exemplar
Rejsen tilbage / (Omsl.: Ib Spang Olsen) 2 exemplar
Poemas Reunidos (Em Portuguese do Brasil) 2 exemplar
Piimmetsa vilus 2 exemplar
Gedichten 2 exemplar
Surmad ja sisenemised : [valik luuletusi] 2 exemplar
Under Milk Wood 2 exemplar
The peaches 2 exemplar
Uma Visão do Mar e Outras Histórias 2 exemplar
The Enemies 1 exemplar
Literatura na Świecie, 1973, 11 (31) 1 exemplar
Viziune și rugă 1 exemplar
Return Journey to Swansea 1 exemplar
Seven poems 1 exemplar
La Playa de Falesá 1 exemplar
十月の詩 1 exemplar
Speak Up #173 1 exemplar
Dylan Thomas: poesie 1 exemplar
Piimmetsa vilus. Mäng häälele 1 exemplar
The Hand That Signed The Paper Felled A City 1 exemplar
Dylan Thomas : Word and Image : An Exhibition Based on the Jeff Towns / Dylans Bookstore Collection 1 exemplar
Under Milk Wood [Original Cast] [Decca] 1 exemplar
A Boy Growing Up (Program) 1 exemplar
The Londoner 1 exemplar
Rebecca’s dochters 1 exemplar
La playa de Falesá 1 exemplar
A Film Script of "Twenty Years A-Growing" 1 exemplar
Patricia, Edith, And Arnold 1 exemplar
The Burning Baby 1 exemplar
Prose e racconti 1 exemplar
Poetry 1 exemplar
In My Craft or Sullen Art {poem} 1 exemplar
Time Life Books 1 exemplar
The doctor and the devils, etc 1 exemplar
Favole di cinema 1 exemplar
The Collected poems of Dylan Thomas 1 exemplar
Dylan Thomas Reading, Volume 2 1 exemplar
Dylan Thomas : the poems 1 exemplar
Twenty-Six Poems 1 exemplar
More Dylan Thomas Reads: Adventures in the Skin Trade / Quite Early One Morning / and Other Poems 1 exemplar
Thomas Dylan 1 exemplar
Selected Stories 1 exemplar
Miscellany, Aldine paperback edition 1 exemplar
緑の導火線 1 exemplar
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The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art (1979) — Bidragsgivare — 85 exemplar
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Bidragsgivare — 40 exemplar
Kingfisher Christmas Book: A Collection of Stories, Poems and Carols for the Twelve Days of Christmas (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
New World Writing: Fifth Mentor Selection - Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Criticism (1954) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
New World Writing: Third Mentor Selection - Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Criticism (1953) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
Oskar Kokoschka, Städteportraits : Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien in Zusammenarbeit mit der Oskar… (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
American Aphrodite (Volume Five, Number Nineteen) / London Aphrodite (1955) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
American Aphrodite: a Quarterly For The Fancy-Free (Volume 4, Number 14) (1954) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
The Time of Your Life: An Anthology of Short Stories — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Contemporary British Short Stories II. George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, H. E. Bates. (1998) — Författare — 1 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Thomas, Dylan
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Thomas, Dylan Marlais
- Födelsedag
- 1914-10-27
- Avled
- 1953-11-09
- Begravningsplats
- Saint Martin's Churchyard, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Wales
- Land (för karta)
- Wales, UK
- Födelseort
- Uplands, Swansea, Wales, UK
- Dödsort
- New York, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Swansea, South Wales, UK
- Utbildning
- Swansea Grammar School
- Relationer
- Thomas, Caitlin (wife)
Thomas, Llewelyn Edouard (son)
Thomas, Aeronwy (daughter)
Thomas, Colm Garan Hart (son)
Campbell, Roy (friend)
Johnson, Pamela Hansford (romance) - Organisationer
- South Wales Evening Post (junior reporter)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Memorial in Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey
- Särskiljningsnotis
- Full name Dylan Marlais Thomas. On combining works of this author: Please take note that editions of the "Poems" can be different works (selections as opposed to complete works). Identical titles alone do not indicate identical works.
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1914: Dylan Thomas - Resources and General Discussion i Literary Centennials (februari 2015)
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