Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon.
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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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. Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press. 21 |
| 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 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... |
| 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... |
| Education | Jeni Couzyn | JC
describes her younger self as a solitary child, rebellious and defiant, challenging everything and everyone. Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books. 217 |
| 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... |
| 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
... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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.