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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
sent a letter of congratulation when the young poet Dylan Thomas
had a poem published (as she had recently had herself) in the Sunday Referee; their correspondence became frequent and personal before they... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Pamela Hansford Johnson | The citation for the prize called her one of the most exquisite word artists of our day. |
| 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. 115 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Philip Larkin | His youthful letters to Sutton are clotted with obscenities in a schoolboy manner, boring and embarrassing to a later generation: My tooth still aches. Balls & anus! I feel shat upon. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press. 5 |
| Friends, Associates | Cecily Mackworth | Other friendships made now or later included many with distinguished women, like Ivy Compton-Burnett
(whom she found kinder to me than she apparently was to most other people), Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet. 112 |
| Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | CM
's early books almost all began as projects in journalism. She contributed reporting or reviews, in two languages, to Time and Tide, Horizon, Twentieth Century, Critique, L'Aube, and Le... |
| Textual Production | Olivia Manning | New Stories also published Pamela Hansford Johnson
, Dylan Thomas
, and Stephen Spender
. OM
's title, which is challenging in a way that was characteristic for this stage of her career, comes from... |
| 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. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber. 174 |
| 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:... |
| Textual Features | Kathleen Nott | Here KN
writes a lively style, with ingenious images and examples, paradoxes like giving a name a bad dog (by which she means taking a concept like Liberalism or Science and using it pejoratively), Nott, Kathleen. The Emperor’s Clothes. Heinemann. 43 |
| Education | Adrienne Rich | |
| Textual Features | Adrienne Rich |
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