Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press.
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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | This incorporated Some Notes on My Own Poetry. |
| Textual Production | Doreen Wallace | This correspondence had begun nearly a month before with a reader questioning the value of work produced under the influence, primarily by the recently-deceased Dylan Thomas
. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3240 (2 April 1964): 273 |
| Textual Production | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
's diaries and letters detailing her relationship with Dylan Thomas
are held by SUNY
at Buffalo, New York. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press. 390 |
| Textual Production | Bryher | Desmond MacCarthy
had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939... |
| Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | CM
's early books almost all began as projects in journalism. She contributed reporting or reviews, in two languages, to Time and Tide, Horizon, Twentieth Century, Critique, L'Aube, and Le... |
| Textual Production | Olivia Manning | New Stories also published Pamela Hansford Johnson
, Dylan Thomas
, and Stephen Spender
. OM
's title, which is challenging in a way that was characteristic for this stage of her career, comes from... |
| Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | |
| Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | In the title-poem, each of five stanzas ends with a version of the first closing lines: we thought we were living now, / but we were living then. Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press. 128 |
| Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | Essays or chapters, some of them controversial, are devoted to Sylvia Plath
, Elizabeth Bishop
, Eavan Boland
, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
, Dana Gioia
, Seamus Heaney
, Louis MacNeice
, and R. S. Thomas |
| Textual Features | Pamela Hansford Johnson | The novel traces the careers of a number of characters including the central figures of three writers, a woman and two men. For all of them those politically fraught years were their formative period. Kit... |
| Textual Features | Gillian Clarke | The letter, she says, is one that might be written to all men by a woman who had plans to leave the ordered, domestic world of her mothers and grandmothers, but who decided to stay... |
| Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead
to Donne
, Jenny Joseph
to W. S. Gilbert
, U. A. Fanthorpe
to Walt Whitman
, Wendy Cope
to A. E. Housman |
| Textual Features | Jan Morris | JM
's book takes in the climate, history, and national character as embodied in personalities from Owain Glendwr
to Dylan Thomas
, of this small country, in many ways the archetype of a small country. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber. 174 |
| Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Critic Deryn Rees-Jones
discerns widely varied influences on CAD
's work: mainstream English poets like Wordsworth
, Robert Browning
, T. S. Eliot
, Auden
, Dylan Thomas
, Larkin
, and Ted Hughes
... |
| Textual Features | Kathleen Nott | Here KN
writes a lively style, with ingenious images and examples, paradoxes like giving a name a bad dog (by which she means taking a concept like Liberalism or Science and using it pejoratively), Nott, Kathleen. The Emperor’s Clothes. Heinemann. 43 |
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.