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Dylan Thomas
Welsh poet and writer (1914–1953)
For other uses, see Dylan Thomas (disambiguation).
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood. He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime; and remained so after his death at the age of 39 in New York City.[2] By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet".[3]
Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, in 1914, leaving school in 1932 to become a reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. Many of his works appeared in print while he was still a teenager. In 1934, the publication of "Light breaks where no sun shines" caught the attention of the literary world. While living in London, Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara; they married in 193
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Read 03/05/2019-06/05/2019
Rating 2.5 stars
The full title of this autobiography is My Life with Dylan Thomas: Double Drink Story. It is Caitlin Thomas’s memoir of her life as Dylan Thomas’s wife. I bought it on a whim at the Dylan Thomas Boathouse on the last day of my holiday in Laugharne. Earlier in the week, I’d read Aeronwy Thomas’s memoir, which didn’t put Caitlin or Dylan in a particularly good light. I was interested to know Caitlin’s take on things.
The book is split into three sections: Drink, Childhood and Dylan. Caitlin uses the first section to set the scene of who she and Dylan were in relation to each other and to drink, the second to describe how she came to be the person she was, and the third to life as Mrs Dylan Thomas. It makes a slight lie of the title, in that only roughly half of the book could be described as her life with Dylan. A good third of it is about her childhood. It’s not uninteresting, it’s just not what the book claims to be. I suppose that she knew that Caitlin Thomas: My Life wouldn’
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Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in Swansea, South Wales. His father was an English literature professor at the local grammar school and would often recite William Shakespeare, fortifying Thomas’s love for the rhythmic ballads of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Thomas dropped out of school at sixteen to become a junior reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. By December 1932, he left his job at the Post and decided to concentrate on his poetry full-time. It was during this time, in his late teens, that Thomas wrote more than half of his collected poems.
In 1934, when Thomas was twenty, he moved to London, won the Poets’ Corner Prize, and published his first book, 18 Poems (The Fortune Press), in the same year to great acclaim. The book drew from a collection of poetry notebooks that Thomas had written years earlier, as would many of his most popular books.
Unlike his contemporaries, T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, Thomas was not concerned with discussing social and
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