Author

Dylan Thomas

1914-1953 · Welsh poet and prose writer known for lyrical intensity and public readings

About Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914–1953) was born in Swansea, the son of an English master at the grammar school, and grew up in an English-speaking household with family roots in the Welsh-speaking farms of Carmarthenshire. He left school at sixteen, worked briefly as a reporter, and published his first book, 18 Poems, at twenty. He wrote stories, film scripts and radio features for the BBC, settled at Laugharne on the Carmarthenshire coast, and became famous as a reader of poetry on air and on American tours. He died in New York in November 1953, shortly after finishing the radio play Under Milk Wood.

Notable works

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Collected Poems 1934–1952

Dylan Thomas

1952 · Postwar Contemporary · Poetry

Collected Poems 1934–1952 was the book Dylan Thomas assembled himself near the end of his life. Published in London by J. M. Dent in 1952 and in the United States by New Directions as The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, it gathers the contents of his earlier volumes, 18 Poems (1934), Twenty-five Poems (1936), The Map of Love (1939), Deaths and Entrances (1946) and In Country Sleep (1952), in roughly the order of those books, and opens with a new Prologue addressed to the reader from his house above the estuary at Laugharne.

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