Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
Forfatter af The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952
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The most important Welsh poet of the twentieth century, Thomas was born in Swansea, about which he remembered unkindly "the smug darkness of a provincial town." He attended Swansea Grammar School but received his real education in the extensive library of his father, a disappointed schoolteacher vis mere with higher ambitions. Refusing university study in favor of immediately becoming a professional writer, Thomas worked first in Swansea and then in London at a variety of literary jobs, which included journalism and, eventually, filmscripts and radio plays. In 1936 he began the satisfying but stormy marriage to the bohemian writer and dancer Caitlin MacNamara that would endure for the rest of his career. His life fell into a pattern of oscillation between work and dissipation in London and recovery and relaxation in a rural retreat, usually in Wales. Thomas worked in a documentary film unit during the war. Besides his poetry, he wrote plays and fiction. In the early 1950s, he gave three celebrated poetry-reading tours of the United States, during which his outrageous behavior vied with his superb reading ability for public attention. Aggravated by chronic alcoholism, his health collapsed during the last tour, and he died in a New York City hospital. In his poetry, Thomas embraced an exuberant romanticism in the encounter between self and world and a joyous riot in the lushness of language. His work falls into three periods---an early "womb-tomb" phase during which he produced a notebook, which he later mined for further poems, a middle one troubled by marriage and war, and a final acceptance of the human condition. The exuberant rhetoric of his work belies an equally strong devotion to artistry, what he once called "my craft or sullen art." His great "Fern Hill," for example, builds its imagery of the rejoicing innocence of childhood on a strict and demanding syllabic count. A recollection of boyhood holidays on the farm of his aunt and uncle, that poem places its emotion within an Edenic framework typical of Thomas's work. The impressive sonnet sequence "Altarwise by Owl-Light" (1936) combines the internal quest of romanticism with a more elaborate religious outlook in tracing the birth and spiritual autobiography of a poet. Almost at the end of his career he produced the moving elegy "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" (1952), written during the final illness of his father. Despite his periods of doubt and dissipation, Thomas celebrated the fullness of life. As he wrote in a note to his Collected Poems (1952), "These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusion, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren't." (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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(eng) Full name Dylan Marlais Thomas. On combining works of this author: Please take note that editions of the "Poems" can be different works (selections as opposed to complete works). Identical titles alone do not indicate identical works.
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Værker af Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night 22 eksemplarer
Collected Prose of Dylan Thomas: Adventures in the Skin Trade; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog; Quite Early One… (1960) 12 eksemplarer
Dylan Thomas Reads: And Death Shall Have No Dominion, a Winter's Tale, on Reading Poetry Aloud and Other Selections (1992) 10 eksemplarer
Twenty-five poems 8 eksemplarer
A mão ao assinar este papel 8 eksemplarer
Collected Poems (Everyman Paperbacks) 6 eksemplarer
Svlékání tmy : Výbor z veršů 4 eksemplarer
Dylan Thomas Reading His Complete Recorded Poetry 3 eksemplarer
New Poems 3 eksemplarer
The peaches 2 eksemplarer
Nooit zal het rijk der doden heersen over ons 2 eksemplarer
Rejsen tilbage / (Omsl.: Ib Spang Olsen) 2 eksemplarer
The Collected Prose of Dylan Thomas Boxed Set 2 eksemplarer
Poemas Reunidos (Em Portuguese do Brasil) 2 eksemplarer
In the Direction of the Beginning 2 eksemplarer
Uma Visão do Mar e Outras Histórias 2 eksemplarer
Under Milk Wood — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
Piimmetsa vilus 2 eksemplarer
Gedichten 2 eksemplarer
The Londoner 1 eksemplar
A Boy Growing Up (Program) 1 eksemplar
Rebecca’s dochters 1 eksemplar
Seven poems 1 eksemplar
Tode und Tore Gedichte ; englisch und deutsch 1 eksemplar
The Enemies 1 eksemplar
Return Journey to Swansea 1 eksemplar
Under Milk Wood [Original Cast] [Decca] 1 eksemplar
Rare Dylan Thomas THE BEACH OF FALSEA 1965 Ballantine Books PB First Printing [Paperback] Dylan Thomas 1 eksemplar
十月の詩 1 eksemplar
Speak Up #173 1 eksemplar
The collected poems 1 eksemplar
Dylan Thomas: poesie 1 eksemplar
Piimmetsa vilus. Mäng häälele 1 eksemplar
The Hand That Signed The Paper Felled A City 1 eksemplar
Dylan Thomas: War Films Anthology [2006 film] 1 eksemplar
Time Life Books 1 eksemplar
La Playa de Falesá 1 eksemplar
Dylan Thomas : Word and Image : An Exhibition Based on the Jeff Towns / Dylans Bookstore Collection 1 eksemplar
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight 1 eksemplar
Dylan Thomas Miscellany 1 eksemplar
The outing 1 eksemplar
Rest To Receive 1 eksemplar
Release 1 eksemplar
I Survived 1 eksemplar
Three Works 1 eksemplar
Viziune și rugă 1 eksemplar
Selected Stories 1 eksemplar
Dylan Thomas : the poems 1 eksemplar
Twenty-Six Poems 1 eksemplar
More Dylan Thomas Reads: Adventures in the Skin Trade / Quite Early One Morning / and Other Poems 1 eksemplar
Thomas Dylan 1 eksemplar
Miscellany, Aldine paperback edition 1 eksemplar
Dylan Thomas Reading, Volume 2 1 eksemplar
Patricia, Edith, And Arnold 1 eksemplar
Collected Poems Dylan Thomas Augmented Edition 1 eksemplar
The Burning Baby 1 eksemplar
Prose e racconti 1 eksemplar
Literatura na Świecie, 1973, 11 (31) 1 eksemplar
La playa de Falesá 1 eksemplar
A Film Script of "Twenty Years A-Growing" 1 eksemplar
Sotto il bosco di latte - Il dottore e i diavoli 1 eksemplar
The doctor and the devils, etc 1 eksemplar
Favole di cinema 1 eksemplar
In My Craft or Sullen Art {poem} 1 eksemplar
The Collected poems of Dylan Thomas 1 eksemplar
Poetry 1 eksemplar
緑の導火線 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 917 eksemplarer
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Bidragyder — 522 eksemplarer
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Bidragyder — 447 eksemplarer
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Bidragyder — 250 eksemplarer
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Bidragyder — 151 eksemplarer
The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art (1979) — Bidragyder — 88 eksemplarer
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Bidragyder — 40 eksemplarer
Kingfisher Christmas Book: A Collection of Stories, Poems and Carols for the Twelve Days of Christmas (1985) — Bidragyder — 27 eksemplarer
New World Writing: Fifth Mentor Selection - Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Criticism (1954) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
New World Writing: Third Mentor Selection - Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Criticism (1953) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Oskar Kokoschka, Städteportraits : Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien in Zusammenarbeit mit der Oskar… (1986) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
American Aphrodite (Volume Five, Number Nineteen) / London Aphrodite (1955) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
American Aphrodite: a Quarterly For The Fancy-Free (Volume 4, Number 14) (1954) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
The Time of Your Life: An Anthology of Short Stories — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Contemporary British Short Stories II. George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, H. E. Bates. (1998) — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Words Among America: Sixty Poems of Challenge and Hope — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Thomas, Dylan
- Juridisk navn
- Thomas, Dylan Marlais
- Fødselsdato
- 1914-10-27
- Dødsdag
- 1953-11-09
- Begravelsessted
- Saint Martin's Churchyard, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Wales
- Land (til kort)
- Wales
- Fødested
- Uplands, Swansea, Wales, UK
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- Swansea, South Wales, UK
- Uddannelse
- Swansea Grammar School
- Relationer
- Thomas, Caitlin (wife)
Thomas, Llewelyn Edouard (son)
Thomas, Aeronwy (daughter)
Thomas, Colm Garan Hart (son)
Campbell, Roy (friend)
Johnson, Pamela Hansford (romance) - Organisationer
- South Wales Evening Post (junior reporter)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Memorial in Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey
- Oplysning om flertydighed
- Full name Dylan Marlais Thomas. On combining works of this author: Please take note that editions of the "Poems" can be different works (selections as opposed to complete works). Identical titles alone do not indicate identical works.
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