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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
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9780241746264
Published:
17 Apr 2025
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
96 pages
Dimensions:
180x110x5mm
Weight:
0.064kgs
Author:
Luminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas' works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor Stravinsky, and Phoebe Bridgers. This selection includes some of his best poetry, celebrating both inner and outer landscapes in the face of mortality, decay, human weakness, and beckoning readers to 'rage, rage against the dying of the light'. Together, they exemplify his legacy as the greatest Welsh poet of the 20th century.
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Luminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas' works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor Stravinsky, and Phoebe Bridgers. This selection includes some of his best poetry, celebrating both inner and outer landscapes in the face of mortality, decay, human weakness, and beckoning readers to 'rage, rage against the dying of the light.' Together, they exemplify his legacy as the greatest Welsh poet of the twentieth century.
About the Author: Dylan Marlais Thomas was born in 1914 in Swansea. His father was senior English master at the Grammar School, where Dylan Thomas received his only formal education before becoming for eighteen months a reporter on the local newspaper. His early poetry matured quickly in private notebooks, and in 1934 saw the publication of the twenty-year-old's first volume, 18 Poems. Thereafter, bohemian literary life in London alternated with some more positively creative periods back in Wales, but his London reputation also laid the base for a celebrated career in the 1940s and early 1950s as a writer for radio and film. Meanwhile, his second and third volumes - Twenty-five Poems (1936) and The Map of Love (1939) - consolidated his standing as a poet. In 1937 he married Caitlin Macnamara and in 1938 settled for the first time in Laugharne, the Camarthenshire seaside village now most closely associated with his name, and a profound influence on his final works. Even at the end of the 1930s, holiday memories of rural Camarthenshire joined native urban memories of Swansea in the autobiographical short stories of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940). The relatively few poems written during the war years are still among the finest anti-war poems of the century; and 1944-5, spent partly at New Quay on the Cardiganshire coast, was an annus mirabilis of remembrances of childhood in poetry and prose. Deaths and Entrances in 1946 confirmed his status as a major lyric poet.Between 1946 and 1949, with proximity to London for film and broadcasting work, the family lived in or near Oxford. 1949 saw a return to Laugharne, to the now famous Boat House. From 1950 on, the poet's attention was given mainly to completing Under Milk Wood, a 'Play for Voices' that had grown out of his work for radio and film, and from his experience of New Quay and Laugharne. His growing renown led to four lecturing tours of the United States, where a collection of late poems, In Country Sleep, was published in 1952. The same year saw the publication of his Collected Poems 1934-1952, to wide acclaim. Under Milk Wood received its first readings with actors at the Poetry Center of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association in New York in May and October 1953. Dylan Thomas died in New York on 9 November 1953 from excessive drinking and medical mistreatment. He is buried at Laugharne.
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