Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
Auteur de The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Notice de désambiguation :
(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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Œuvres de Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night 22 exemplaires
Collected Prose of Dylan Thomas: Adventures in the Skin Trade; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog; Quite Early One… (1960) 12 exemplaires
Dylan Thomas Reads: And Death Shall Have No Dominion, a Winter's Tale, on Reading Poetry Aloud and Other Selections (1992) 10 exemplaires
Twenty-five poems 8 exemplaires
A mão ao assinar este papel 8 exemplaires
Collected Poems (Everyman Paperbacks) 6 exemplaires
Svlékání tmy : Výbor z veršů 4 exemplaires
Dylan Thomas Reading His Complete Recorded Poetry 3 exemplaires
New Poems 3 exemplaires
Piimmetsa vilus 2 exemplaires
Nooit zal het rijk der doden heersen over ons 2 exemplaires
In the Direction of the Beginning 2 exemplaires
Uma Visão do Mar e Outras Histórias 2 exemplaires
Under Milk Wood — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
The peaches 2 exemplaires
Gedichten 2 exemplaires
The Collected Prose of Dylan Thomas Boxed Set 2 exemplaires
Rejsen tilbage / (Omsl.: Ib Spang Olsen) 2 exemplaires
Poemas Reunidos (Em Portuguese do Brasil) 2 exemplaires
The Enemies 1 exemplaire
Return Journey to Swansea 1 exemplaire
A Boy Growing Up (Program) 1 exemplaire
The Londoner 1 exemplaire
Rebecca’s dochters 1 exemplaire
Tode und Tore Gedichte ; englisch und deutsch 1 exemplaire
Seven poems 1 exemplaire
Under Milk Wood [Original Cast] [Decca] 1 exemplaire
Release 1 exemplaire
Time Life Books 1 exemplaire
十月の詩 1 exemplaire
Speak Up #173 1 exemplaire
The collected poems 1 exemplaire
Dylan Thomas: poesie 1 exemplaire
Piimmetsa vilus. Mäng häälele 1 exemplaire
The Hand That Signed The Paper Felled A City 1 exemplaire
Dylan Thomas: War Films Anthology [2006 film] 1 exemplaire
Dylan Thomas : Word and Image : An Exhibition Based on the Jeff Towns / Dylans Bookstore Collection 1 exemplaire
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight 1 exemplaire
Dylan Thomas Miscellany 1 exemplaire
The outing 1 exemplaire
Rare Dylan Thomas THE BEACH OF FALSEA 1965 Ballantine Books PB First Printing [Paperback] Dylan Thomas 1 exemplaire
Rest To Receive 1 exemplaire
I Survived 1 exemplaire
Three Works 1 exemplaire
La Playa de Falesá 1 exemplaire
Viziune și rugă 1 exemplaire
Dylan Thomas reading. Volume IV [sound recording] 1 exemplaire
More Dylan Thomas Reads: Adventures in the Skin Trade / Quite Early One Morning / and Other Poems 1 exemplaire
Thomas Dylan 1 exemplaire
Prose e racconti 1 exemplaire
Selected Stories 1 exemplaire
Miscellany, Aldine paperback edition 1 exemplaire
The Burning Baby 1 exemplaire
Poetry 1 exemplaire
Collected Poems Dylan Thomas Augmented Edition 1 exemplaire
A Film Script of "Twenty Years A-Growing" 1 exemplaire
Patricia, Edith, And Arnold 1 exemplaire
Literatura na Świecie, 1973, 11 (31) 1 exemplaire
La playa de Falesá 1 exemplaire
The doctor and the devils, etc 1 exemplaire
Favole di cinema 1 exemplaire
In My Craft or Sullen Art {poem} 1 exemplaire
The Collected poems of Dylan Thomas 1 exemplaire
Sotto il bosco di latte - Il dottore e i diavoli 1 exemplaire
Dylan Thomas 1 exemplaire
Dylan Thomas Reading, Volume 2 1 exemplaire
Dylan Thomas : the poems 1 exemplaire
Twenty-Six Poems 1 exemplaire
緑の導火線 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contributeur — 250 exemplaires
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributeur — 151 exemplaires
The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art (1979) — Contributeur — 89 exemplaires
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Contributeur — 40 exemplaires
Kingfisher Christmas Book: A Collection of Stories, Poems and Carols for the Twelve Days of Christmas (1985) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires
New World Writing: Fifth Mentor Selection - Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Criticism (1954) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
New World Writing: Third Mentor Selection - Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Criticism (1953) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Oskar Kokoschka, Städteportraits : Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien in Zusammenarbeit mit der Oskar… (1986) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
American Aphrodite (Volume Five, Number Nineteen) / London Aphrodite (1955) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
American Aphrodite: a Quarterly For The Fancy-Free (Volume 4, Number 14) (1954) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
The Time of Your Life: An Anthology of Short Stories — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Contemporary British Short Stories II. George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, H. E. Bates. (1998) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Words Among America: Sixty Poems of Challenge and Hope — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Thomas, Dylan
- Nom légal
- Thomas, Dylan Marlais
- Date de naissance
- 1914-10-27
- Date de décès
- 1953-11-09
- Lieu de sépulture
- Saint Martin's Churchyard, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Wales
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Wales
- Lieu de naissance
- Uplands, Swansea, Wales, UK
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Swansea, South Wales, UK
- Études
- Swansea Grammar School
- Relations
- Thomas, Caitlin (wife)
Thomas, Llewelyn Edouard (son)
Thomas, Aeronwy (daughter)
Thomas, Colm Garan Hart (son)
Campbell, Roy (friend)
Johnson, Pamela Hansford (romance) - Organisations
- South Wales Evening Post (junior reporter)
- Prix et distinctions
- Memorial in Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey
- Notice de désambigüisation
- 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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Discussions
1914: Dylan Thomas - Resources and General Discussion à Literary Centennials (Février 2015)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 239
- Aussi par
- 62
- Membres
- 14,033
- Popularité
- #1,638
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 180
- ISBN
- 507
- Langues
- 27
- Favoris
- 98