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Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

Autor von 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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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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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Gebräuchlichste Namensform
Thomas, Dylan
Rechtmäßiger Name
Thomas, Dylan Marlais
Geburtstag
1914-10-27
Todestag
1953-11-09
Begräbnisort
Saint Martin's Churchyard, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
Wales
Land (für Karte)
Wales, UK
Geburtsort
Uplands, Swansea, Wales, UK
Sterbeort
New York, New York, USA
Wohnorte
Swansea, South Wales, UK
Ausbildung
Swansea Grammar School
Beziehungen
Thomas, Caitlin (wife)
Thomas, Llewelyn Edouard (son)
Thomas, Aeronwy (daughter)
Thomas, Colm Garan Hart (son)
Campbell, Roy (friend)
Johnson, Pamela Hansford (romance)
Organisationen
South Wales Evening Post (junior reporter)
Preise und Auszeichnungen
Memorial in Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey
Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
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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1914: Dylan Thomas - Resources and General Discussion in Literary Centennials (Februar 2015)

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“It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers.” (Citation page 8)

Content, theme and genre
The well-known Welsh poet Dylan Thomas writes about the traditional Christmas days of his childhood with the family celebrating together and the fun children had.
This is a book about Christmas that makes grown-ups dream and still will be enjoyed by children of any age. The illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman make this book a delightful gem, to be read every year again and again.

Conclusion
A beautifully illustrated story about the joy of traditional Christmas days for readers of every age.
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