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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Djuna Barnes
Nightwood met with varied responses once it was published. It was reviewed well in England, but much more negatively in the USA. Dylan Thomas called it one of the three great prose books ever written...
Literary responses Samuel Beckett
Dylan Thomas called this novel Freud ian blarney: Sodom and Begorrah.
Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995.
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Iris Murdoch recorded the lasting impression which it made on her when she first read it.
Federman, Raymond, and John, 1937 - Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970.
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Harold Pinter —who while trying to...
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:...
Occupation Frances Horovitz
Patrick Magee , Harvey Hall , Stevie Smith , Hugh Dickson , and Basil Jones were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats , D. H. Lawrence
Occupation Anna Wickham
Dylan Thomas and Malcolm Lowry were among those who stayed. She built an enduring friendship with Lowry, but had quarrels with Thomas which ended in throwing him out of her house.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Occupation Edith Sitwell
ES was a generous patron to her younger writer friends. She contributed significantly to establishing the reputations of Thomas , Campbell , and Welch , who was ecstatic at receiving a plum, jewel, diadem knock-out...
Reception Pamela Hansford Johnson
The paper had decided to offer this annual prize for the best of the pieces printed in its Poet's Corner column (brainchild of Victor Neuburg ). The prize was the publication by subsidy of the...
Reception Maya Angelou
This vitality and optimism has made MA 's poems a favourite of teachers, motivators, and those who exchange tips for living on the internet. In 2016 an Ontario poet, Kathy Figueroa , noticed on the...
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 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 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 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, 1987.
128
These we, it seems, are...
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 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.
qtd. in
Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016.
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