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
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...
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
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...
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/.
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:...
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...
Literary responses Pamela Hansford Johnson
The citation for the prize called her one of the most exquisite word artists of our day.
Hadley, Tessa. “He wants me no more”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 29-30.
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Luckily she also had the benefit of Thomas 's reponses, sometimes gentle, sometimes waspish, on her early...
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 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.
Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon.
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Iris Murdoch recorded the lasting impression which it made on her when she first read it.
Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press.
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Harold Pinter —who while trying to...
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...
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...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Pamela Hansford Johnson
She was working on it while her family moved house, writing on packing-cases with the removers removing around me.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner.
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The title (quoted from John Donne , which misleadingly suggests fulfilled sexual passion) was the...

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