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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Pamela Hansford Johnson | This book had the kind of scandalous success that PHJ
later associated with Kingsley Amis
's Lucky Jimnineteen years later. It was considered a signal success, but the kind of success that brought its... |
| 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 |
| 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:... |
| 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 | Edith Sitwell | |
| 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/. |
| 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 | 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 |
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