Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
Friends, Associates
Edith Sitwell
During the 1930s ES
discovered the work of an unknown and very young Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas
. She threw herself with vigour into promoting him, and took up the cudgels on his behalf when...
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),
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...
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...
