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The renowned literary biographer offers a "thoroughly well-written" chronicle of the legendary Welsh poet's life that is "rich in anecdote" (
The New Yorker).
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Dylan Thomas is as legendary for his raucous life as for his literary genius. The author of the immortal poems Death Shall Have No Dominion, Before I Knocked, and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, as well as the short story A Christmas in Wales, and the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood, published his first book, 18 Poems, in 1934, when he was only twenty years old.
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When he died in New York in 1953, at age thirty-nine, the myths took hold: he became the Keats and the Byron of his generation—the romantic poet who died too young, his potential unfulfilled.
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Making masterful use of original material from archives and personal papers, Andrew Lycett describes the development of the young poet, brings valuable new insights to Thomas's poetry, and unearths fascinating details about the poet's many affairs and his tempestuous marriage to his passionate Irish wife, Caitlin. The result is a poignant yet stirring portrait of the chaos of Thomas's personal life and a welcome re-evaluation of the lyricism and experimentalism of his literary legacy.
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"This is the best biography of the poet I have ever read." —Robert Nye, The Scotsman
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Dylan Thomas is as legendary for his raucous life as for his literary genius. The author of the immortal poems Death Shall Have No Dominion, Before I Knocked, and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, as well as the short story A Christmas in Wales, and the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood, published his first book, 18 Poems, in 1934, when he was only twenty years old.
Â
When he died in New York in 1953, at age thirty-nine, the myths took hold: he became the Keats and the Byron of his generation—the romantic poet who died too young, his potential unfulfilled.
Â
Making masterful use of original material from archives and personal papers, Andrew Lycett describes the development of the young poet, brings valuable new insights to Thomas's poetry, and unearths fascinating details about the poet's many affairs and his tempestuous marriage to his passionate Irish wife, Caitlin. The result is a poignant yet stirring portrait of the chaos of Thomas's personal life and a welcome re-evaluation of the lyricism and experimentalism of his literary legacy.
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"This is the best biography of the poet I have ever read." —Robert Nye, The Scotsman
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INDEX
Abels, Cyrilly 355
Aberconway, Christabel, Lady 124
Abercrombie, David 104
Abercrombie, Lascelles 104, 121
Abercrombie, Ralph 104
Aberystwyth 99–100
Ackerman, John 216
Action Française 134
Adam Smith, Janet 91, 104, 111
Adelphi 75, 90, 93, 111
Adler, Jankel 199, 209, 251, 270
Advocate 329
Agate, James 176
Aiken, Conrad 218, 235, 305
Aldington, Richard 47, 81, 105, 211
Algren, Nelson 332
Allen Wingate, publishers 322, 331, 346, 355
Amherst College 288
Amis, Kingsley 260, 315, 381
Anand, Mulk Raj 150
Anger, Kenneth 281
Ann Watkins agency 159, 165, 169, 218, 300, 308, 325
Anstey, Edgar 207
Apocalypse movement 168, 342
Arbeid, Ben 310–11
Archer, David 103, 104, 141, 164, 199, 209
Arena 273, 274
Arlen, Michael 350
Arlott, John 229, 230, 233, 244, 347
Armstrong, John 230
Arp, Jean 158
Arthur, Gavin 293
Atkin, Rev. Leon 96
Atlantic 321
Auchinloss, Louis 350
Auden, W.H. 75, 79, 84, 93, 109, 111, 113, 134, 136, 139, 143, 153, 165, 167, 170, 186, 194, 195, 196–7, 275, 278, 284, 326, 342, 353, 368, 374, 375
Ayrton, Michael 238
Bacon, Francis 373
Balcon, Michael 255
Banting, John 210, 217, 262
Barker, George 103, 104, 137, 141, 186, 230, 310
Barnes, Djuna 137, 138, 139
Barnes, G.R. 216, 314
Barrés, Maurice 134
Barrett, Mary Ellin 325–6
Bartok, Bela 327
Bartok, Peter 327
Bassett, Herbert 51
Bassett, Jackie 24, 43
Baumann...
Table of contents
- Cover
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
- Contents
- Family Tree
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- One: Swansea Aspirations
- Two: A Precocious Childhood
- Three: Virtue and Good Literature
- Four: My Body was my Adventure
- Five: Sore Trial
- Six: A Tormented Thing
- Seven: Epistolary Encounters
- Eight: The Rub of Love
- Nine: The Blindest Bit
- Ten: Caitlin, Emily and Veronica
- Eleven: Marriage Pangs
- Twelve: Skirting the War
- Thirteen: Hack Work
- Fourteen: Attempted Murder
- Fifteen: Oxford, the BBC and Italy
- Sixteen: Longing for Home
- Seventeen: View from the Shed
- Eighteen: A Voice on Wheels
- Nineteen: In the Direction of his Pain
- Twenty: Battle Against American Hospitality
- Twenty-One: To Begin at the Beginning
- Twenty-Two: The Gates of Hell
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Dylan Thomas