Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995.
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Dylan Thomas
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Standard Name: Thomas, Dylan
Birth Name: Dylan Marlais Thomas
DT
acquired instant fame as a very young man in the 1930s when his earliest poems were published. Throughout his short life he turned out journalistic hack work and reviews; as well as poetry he published short stories and essays. His most famous work is his radio drama Under Milk Wood, about the inhabitants of an imaginary Welsh village.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Pamela Hansford Johnson | This book had the kind of scandalous success that PHJ
later associated with Kingsley Amis
's Lucky Jimnineteen years later. It was considered a signal success, but the kind of success that brought its... |
| Literary responses | Michelene Wandor | This piece received high praise. The poet and novelist John Wain
in The Sunday Telegraph compared it to Dylan Thomas
and Louis MacNeice
in its attainment of that rarely attained genre, the pure radio work... |
| Literary responses | Djuna Barnes | Nightwood met with varied responses once it was published. It was reviewed well in England, but much more negatively in the USA. Dylan Thomas
called it one of the three great prose books ever written... |
| Literary responses | Samuel Beckett | Dylan Thomas
called this novel Freud
ian blarney: Sodom and Begorrah. Federman, Raymond, and John, 1937 - Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970. 21 |
| Occupation | Frances Horovitz | Patrick Magee
, Harvey Hall
, Stevie Smith
, Hugh Dickson
, and Basil Jones
were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats
, D. H. Lawrence |
| Occupation | Anna Wickham | Dylan Thomas
and Malcolm Lowry
were among those who stayed. She built an enduring friendship with Lowry, but had quarrels with Thomas which ended in throwing him out of her house. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Occupation | Edith Sitwell | |
| Reception | Pamela Hansford Johnson | The paper had decided to offer this annual prize for the best of the pieces printed in its Poet's Corner column (brainchild of Victor Neuburg
). The prize was the publication by subsidy of the... |
| Reception | Maya Angelou | This vitality and optimism has made MA
's poems a favourite of teachers, motivators, and those who exchange tips for living on the internet. In 2016 an Ontario poet, Kathy Figueroa
, noticed on the... |
| Textual Features | Jan Morris | JM
's book takes in the climate, history, and national character as embodied in personalities from Owain Glendwr
to Dylan Thomas
, of this small country, in many ways the archetype of a small country. qtd. in Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016. 174 |
| Textual Features | Gillian Clarke | The letter, she says, is one that might be written to all men by a woman who had plans to leave the ordered, domestic world of her mothers and grandmothers, but who decided to stay... |
| Textual Features | Kathleen Nott | Here KN
writes a lively style, with ingenious images and examples, paradoxes like giving a name a bad dog (by which she means taking a concept like Liberalism or Science and using it pejoratively), Nott, Kathleen. The Emperor’s Clothes. Heinemann, 1953. 43 |
| Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | |
| Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead
to Donne
, Jenny Joseph
to W. S. Gilbert
, U. A. Fanthorpe
to Walt Whitman
, Wendy Cope
to A. E. Housman |
| Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Critic Deryn Rees-Jones
discerns widely varied influences on CAD
's work: mainstream English poets like Wordsworth
, Robert Browning
, T. S. Eliot
, Auden
, Dylan Thomas
, Larkin
, and Ted Hughes
... |
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