Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books.
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Dylan Thomas
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Standard Name: Thomas, Dylan
Birth Name: Dylan Marlais Thomas
DT
acquired instant fame as a very young man in the 1930s when his earliest poems were published. Throughout his short life he turned out journalistic hack work and reviews; as well as poetry he published short stories and essays. His most famous work is his radio drama Under Milk Wood, about the inhabitants of an imaginary Welsh village.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Jeni Couzyn | JC
describes her younger self as a solitary child, rebellious and defiant, challenging everything and everyone. |
| Education | Adrienne Rich | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jeni Couzyn | Jeni's sisters offered early poetic encouragement, and provided a connection between literature, as learned in school, and poems written privately. When she was about fifteen, JC
remembers one of her sisters giving her two LP... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
sent a letter of congratulation when the young poet Dylan Thomas
had a poem published (as she had recently had herself) in the Sunday Referee; their correspondence became frequent and personal before they... |
| Friends, Associates | Cecily Mackworth | Other friendships made now or later included many with distinguished women, like Ivy Compton-Burnett
(whom she found kinder to me than she apparently was to most other people), Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet. 112 |
| Friends, Associates | Ethel Wilson | Through parties hosted by her eventual publisher, the Macmillan Company
, EW
also met Morley Callaghan
, who admired her writing. Other writers she knew included John Gray
, A. J. M. Smith
, Robert Weaver |
| Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | During the 1930s ES
discovered the work of an unknown and very young Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas
. She threw herself with vigour into promoting him, and took up the cudgels on his behalf when... |
| Friends, Associates | Hélène Barcynska | Friends of HB
and her husband during these years included Gwyn Jones
, editor of the Welsh Review, George Green
of the University of Wales
, actress Violet Lamb
, and novelist Ruby M. Ayres |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Philip Larkin | His youthful letters to Sutton are clotted with obscenities in a schoolboy manner, boring and embarrassing to a later generation: My tooth still aches. Balls & anus! I feel shat upon. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press. 5 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Carol Ann Duffy | The book was highly derivative. Though she had just discovered the poems of Pablo Neruda
, CAD
describes the contents of the volume as a mixture of Keats
and Sylvia Plath
and Dylan Thomas
and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | She was working on it while her family moved house, writing on packing-cases with the removers removing around me. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 115 |
| Leisure and Society | William Empson | Empson was a heavy social drinker all his life (at one time a drinking companion of Dylan Thomas
). Haffenden remarks that in China he gained well-deserved status in the Chinese classical tradition of venerably... |
| Literary responses | Michelene Wandor | This piece received high praise. The poet and novelist John Wain
in The Sunday Telegraph compared it to Dylan Thomas
and Louis MacNeice
in its attainment of that rarely attained genre, the pure radio work... |
| Literary responses | Kathleen Nott | In the TLSG. S. Fraser
remarked that her poetry was difficult but rewarding, and likened it in different aspects to that of Dylan Thomas
, George Barker
, and William Empson
. He concluded:... |
| Literary responses | Ann Hatton | In 1905 a writer in the South Wales Evening Post said he had survived reading all of AH
's novels in the British Library
. In The Herald of Wales in 1939 another said they... |
Timeline
11 June-4 July 1936: The International Surrealist Exhibition was...
Building item
11 June-4 July 1936
The International Surrealist Exhibition was held in the New Burlington Galleries
, London. English painter Eileen Agar
's work was chosen to be shown alongside her fellow surrealists such as Paul Nash
and Henry Moore
.
December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...
Women writers item
December 1965
Actress Peggy Ashcroft
toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University
.
Texts
Thomas, Dylan. Eighteen Poems. Fortune Press, 1934.
Thomas, Dylan. Quite Early One Morning. J. M. Dent, 1954.
Thomas, Dylan. Twenty-Five Poems. J. M. Dent, 1936.