Dylan Thomas

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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.
  • BirthName: Dylan Marlais Thomas
    The name Dylan came from a minor character in the Mabinogion, and Marlais from a great-uncle, a radical preacher, who used that name in his other role of bard.
    Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press, 2003.
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27 October 1914

DT , Welsh poet, was born in the front bedroom of the still unfinished house at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea, West Glamorgan (an address he later made famous). He was the much younger of two children.
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press, 2003.
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18 December 1934

Dylan Thomas published his first book, 18 Poems; it made his name.
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press, 2003.
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Phillips, Adam. “A Terrible Thing, Thank God”. London Review of Books, 4 Mar. 2004, pp. 22-4.
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3 May 1953

DT 's Under Milk Wood had its first reading, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard . The script was still unfinished. Thomas himself took the role of narrator.
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press, 2003.
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9 November 1953

DT , Welsh poet, died of pneumonia in St Vincent's, a private hospital in New York run by Roman Catholic nuns. He had been in a deep coma for four or five days.
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press, 2003.
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25 January 1954

Three months after Dylan Thomas 's death, his dramatic poem or radio play Under Milk Wood was first broadcast. He had himself had participated in readings of it in the USA.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
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“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Biography

Birth and Background

27 October 1914

DT , Welsh poet, was born in the front bedroom of the still unfinished house at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea, West Glamorgan (an address he later made famous). He was the much younger of two children.
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press, 2003.
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