Famous for seminal poems such as ''Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night'', ''And Death Shall Have No Dominion'' and ''A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London'', Dylan Thomas was the author of a substantial body of poetry, which he began writing as a teenager and continued to expand until the end of his short and troubled life. This fully annotated volume presents all of Thomas''s surviving poems, including those published during his lifetime and those collected after his death in 1953. Taken together, they showcase the linguistic brilliance, rhythmic inventiveness and sheer poetical genius of the great modern Welsh bard. Famous for seminal poems such as ''Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night'', ''And Death Shall Have No Dominion'' and ''A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London'', Dylan Thomas was the author of a substantial body of poetry, which he began writing as a teenager and continued to expand until the end of his short and troubled life. This fully annotated volume presents all of Thomas''s surviving poems, including those published during his lifetime and those collected after his death in 1953. Taken together, they showcase the linguistic brilliance, rhythmic inventiveness and sheer poetical genius of the great modern Welsh bard.

Autorentext

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914. After leaving school he worked briefly as a junior reporter on the South Wales Evening Post before deciding to embark on a freelance literary career. He rapidly established himself as a remarkable personality and one of the finest poets of his generation. 18 Poems appeared in 1934, Twenty-five Poems in 1936, Deaths and Entrances in 1946 and In Country Sleep in 1952. His Collected Poems was published in 1952. Throughout his life, Thomas also wrote short stories, his most famous collection being Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He also wrote film scripts, was a celebrated broadcaster of radio features and talks, lectured widely in America, and wrote the radio play Under Milk Wood, first broadcast posthumously in 1954.

Klappentext

Famous for seminal poems such as ?Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night', ?And Death Shall Have No Dominion' and ?A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London', Dylan Thomas was the author of a substantial body of poetry, which he began writing as a teenager and continued to expand until the end of his short and troubled life.

This fully annotated volume presents all of Thomas's surviving poems, including those published during his lifetime and those collected after his death in 1953. Taken together, they showcase the linguistic brilliance, rhythmic inventiveness and sheer poetical genius of the great modern Welsh bard.
Famous for seminal poems such as ?Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night', ?And Death Shall Have No Dominion' and ?A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London', Dylan Thomas was the author of a substantial body of poetry, which he began writing as a teenager and continued to expand until the end of his short and troubled life.

This fully annotated volume presents all of Thomas's surviving poems, including those published during his lifetime and those collected after his death in 1953. Taken together, they showcase the linguistic brilliance, rhythmic inventiveness and sheer poetical genius of the great modern Welsh bard.

Zusammenfassung
This fully annotated volume with over 1,000 notes is the most complete edition of Dylan Thomas's poems available. Contains all his early poems that have not been published since their appearance in the Swansea Grammar School, all his notebook poems and other uncollected poems.