SELECTED POETRY &_CLASSICS EB

Dylan Thomas

• Publisher: William Collins
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9780008729943
• eBook ISBN: 9780008706746
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

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'Though lovers be lost love shall not;

And death shall have no dominion.'

As a child growing up in South Wales, Dylan Thomas was obsessed with words. In adulthood his literary talents and stormy personal life would both shock and captivate his contemporaries. Today, he is considered to be arguably the greatest Welsh poet of all time. This selection of his writings combines Thomas's most beloved poems including 'And Death Shall Have No Dominion', 'Fern Hill' and 'Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night'; his short story collection A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog; and the heart-warming classic tale 'A Child's Christmas in Wales'.

Celebrated for his melodic and deeply emotive style, Thomas's profound portrayal of love, death, memory and the human condition continues to strike a chord with twenty-first century readers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Note
• Author’s Prologue
• I see the boys of summer
• When once the twilight locks no longer
• A process in the weather of the heart
• Before I knocked
• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
• My hero bares his nerves
• Where once the waters of your face
• If I were tickled by the rub of love
• Our eunuch dreams
• Especially when the October wind
• When, like a running grave
• From love’s first fever to her plague
• In the beginning
• Light breaks where no sun shines
• I fellowed sleep
• I dreamed my genesis
• My world is pyramid
• All all and all the dry worlds lever
• I, in my intricate image
• This bread I break
• Incarnate devil
• To-day, this insect
• The seed-at-zero
• Shall gods be said to thump the clouds
• Here in this spring
• Do you not father me
• Out of the sighs
• Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo’s month
• Was There A Time
• Now
• Why east wind chills
• A grief ago
• How soon the servant sun
• Ears in the turrets hear
• Foster the light
• The hand that signed the paper
• Should lanterns shine
• I have longed to move away
• Find meat on bones
• Grief thief of time
• And death shall have no dominion
• Then was my neophyte
• Altarwise by owl-light
• Because the pleasure-bird whistles
• I make this in a warring absence
• When all my five and country senses see
• We lying by seasand
• It is the sinners’ dust-tongued bell
• O make me a mask
• The spire cranes
• After the funeral
• Once it was the colour of saying
• Not from this anger
• How shall my animal
• The tombstone told when she died
• On no work of words
• A saint about to fall
• ‘If my head hurt a hair’s foot’
• Twenty-four years
• The Conversation of Prayer
• A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
• Poem in October
• This Side of the Truth
• To Others than You
• Love in the Asylum
• Unluckily for a Death
• The Hunchback in the Park
• Into her Lying Down Head
• Do not go gentle into that good night
• Deaths and Entrances
• A Winter’s Tale
• On a Wedding Anniversary
• There was a Saviour
• On the Marriage of a Virgin
• In my Craft or Sullen Art
• Ceremony After a Fire Raid
• Once below a time
• When I Woke
• Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man Aged a Hundred
• Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
• Vision and Prayer
• Ballad of the Long-legged Bait
• Holy Spring
• Fern Hill
• In country sleep
• Over Sir John’s hill
• Poem on his birthday
• Lament
• In the white giant’s thigh
• A Child’s Christmas in Wales
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
• Classic Literature: Words and Phrases
• About the Publisher