Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
Auteur van The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952
Over de 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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Ontwarringsbericht:
(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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Werken van Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night 22 exemplaren
Collected Prose of Dylan Thomas: Adventures in the Skin Trade; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog; Quite Early One… (1960) 12 exemplaren
Dylan Thomas Reads: And Death Shall Have No Dominion, a Winter's Tale, on Reading Poetry Aloud and Other Selections (1992) 10 exemplaren
Twenty-five poems 8 exemplaren
A mão ao assinar este papel 8 exemplaren
Collected Poems (Everyman Paperbacks) 6 exemplaren
Svlékání tmy : Výbor z veršů 4 exemplaren
Dylan Thomas Reading His Complete Recorded Poetry 3 exemplaren
New Poems 3 exemplaren
Piimmetsa vilus 2 exemplaren
Nooit zal het rijk der doden heersen over ons 2 exemplaren
In the Direction of the Beginning 2 exemplaren
Uma Visão do Mar e Outras Histórias 2 exemplaren
Under Milk Wood — Auteur — 2 exemplaren
The peaches 2 exemplaren
Gedichten 2 exemplaren
The Collected Prose of Dylan Thomas Boxed Set 2 exemplaren
Rejsen tilbage / (Omsl.: Ib Spang Olsen) 2 exemplaren
Poemas Reunidos (Em Portuguese do Brasil) 2 exemplaren
The Enemies 1 exemplaar
Return Journey to Swansea 1 exemplaar
A Boy Growing Up (Program) 1 exemplaar
The Londoner 1 exemplaar
Rebecca’s dochters 1 exemplaar
Tode und Tore Gedichte ; englisch und deutsch 1 exemplaar
Seven poems 1 exemplaar
Under Milk Wood [Original Cast] [Decca] 1 exemplaar
Release 1 exemplaar
Time Life Books 1 exemplaar
十月の詩 1 exemplaar
Speak Up #173 1 exemplaar
The collected poems 1 exemplaar
Dylan Thomas: poesie 1 exemplaar
Piimmetsa vilus. Mäng häälele 1 exemplaar
The Hand That Signed The Paper Felled A City 1 exemplaar
Dylan Thomas: War Films Anthology [2006 film] 1 exemplaar
Dylan Thomas : Word and Image : An Exhibition Based on the Jeff Towns / Dylans Bookstore Collection 1 exemplaar
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight 1 exemplaar
Dylan Thomas Miscellany 1 exemplaar
The outing 1 exemplaar
Rare Dylan Thomas THE BEACH OF FALSEA 1965 Ballantine Books PB First Printing [Paperback] Dylan Thomas 1 exemplaar
Rest To Receive 1 exemplaar
I Survived 1 exemplaar
Three Works 1 exemplaar
La Playa de Falesá 1 exemplaar
Viziune și rugă 1 exemplaar
More Dylan Thomas Reads: Adventures in the Skin Trade / Quite Early One Morning / and Other Poems 1 exemplaar
Thomas Dylan 1 exemplaar
Prose e racconti 1 exemplaar
Selected Stories 1 exemplaar
Miscellany, Aldine paperback edition 1 exemplaar
The Burning Baby 1 exemplaar
Poetry 1 exemplaar
Collected Poems Dylan Thomas Augmented Edition 1 exemplaar
A Film Script of "Twenty Years A-Growing" 1 exemplaar
Patricia, Edith, And Arnold 1 exemplaar
Literatura na Świecie, 1973, 11 (31) 1 exemplaar
La playa de Falesá 1 exemplaar
The doctor and the devils, etc 1 exemplaar
Favole di cinema 1 exemplaar
In My Craft or Sullen Art {poem} 1 exemplaar
The Collected poems of Dylan Thomas 1 exemplaar
Sotto il bosco di latte - Il dottore e i diavoli 1 exemplaar
Dylan Thomas 1 exemplaar
Dylan Thomas Reading, Volume 2 1 exemplaar
Dylan Thomas : the poems 1 exemplaar
Twenty-Six Poems 1 exemplaar
緑の導火線 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Thomas, Dylan
- Officiële naam
- Thomas, Dylan Marlais
- Geboortedatum
- 1914-10-27
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1953-11-09
- Graflocatie
- Saint Martin's Churchyard, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Wales
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Wales, UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Uplands, Swansea, Wales, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- New York, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Swansea, South Wales, UK
- Opleiding
- Swansea Grammar School
- Relaties
- Thomas, Caitlin (wife)
Thomas, Llewelyn Edouard (son)
Thomas, Aeronwy (daughter)
Thomas, Colm Garan Hart (son)
Campbell, Roy (friend)
Johnson, Pamela Hansford (romance) - Organisaties
- South Wales Evening Post (junior reporter)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Memorial in Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey
- Ontwarringsbericht
- 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 (februari 2015)
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Onder het melkbos een stuk voor stemmen door Dylan Thomas
Dit was een poging om een Welshe Ulysses te creëren, lees ik in het nawoord van mijn editie. En ik begrijp wel waar dat vandaan komt: literaire krachtpatserij, het suffige Welshe stadje, en vooral de kleine mensjes die ten tonele worden gevoerd. Bij anderen lees ik dat dit een toegankelijker Welshe versie van Finnegan’s Wake zou zijn, onleesbaar zonder voetnoten. In elk geval is de band met Joyce overduidelijk, al heeft Thomas er zeker zijn eigen draai aan gegeven. Zeker als je naar de auditieve versie luistert, word je aangegrepen door de expressieve kracht van deze tekst, en vooral dan de afwisseling van bravoure en meer intimistische delen. Maar ik moet bekennen dat ik niet zo voor dit soort dingen ben. Het spijt me voor de fans.… (meer)
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bookomaniac | Aug 12, 2023 |
bookomaniac | Aug 12, 2023 | 
Kort verhaal over twee jongens die op een regenachtige avond na het werk en een biertje in de pub een meisje volgen naar haar huis om te zien wat daar gebeurt. Ze krijgen waar voor hun geld.
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