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 Excerpt
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.
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and Stevie Smith , whom...
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...
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.
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The pained exaggeration...
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.
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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.
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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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