Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
Autor de The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952
Sobre El Autor
The most important Welsh poet of the twentieth century, Thomas was born in Swansea, about which he remembered unkindly "the smug darkness of a provincial town." He attended Swansea Grammar School but received his real education in the extensive library of his father, a disappointed schoolteacher mostrar más with higher ambitions. Refusing university study in favor of immediately becoming a professional writer, Thomas worked first in Swansea and then in London at a variety of literary jobs, which included journalism and, eventually, filmscripts and radio plays. In 1936 he began the satisfying but stormy marriage to the bohemian writer and dancer Caitlin MacNamara that would endure for the rest of his career. His life fell into a pattern of oscillation between work and dissipation in London and recovery and relaxation in a rural retreat, usually in Wales. Thomas worked in a documentary film unit during the war. Besides his poetry, he wrote plays and fiction. In the early 1950s, he gave three celebrated poetry-reading tours of the United States, during which his outrageous behavior vied with his superb reading ability for public attention. Aggravated by chronic alcoholism, his health collapsed during the last tour, and he died in a New York City hospital. In his poetry, Thomas embraced an exuberant romanticism in the encounter between self and world and a joyous riot in the lushness of language. His work falls into three periods---an early "womb-tomb" phase during which he produced a notebook, which he later mined for further poems, a middle one troubled by marriage and war, and a final acceptance of the human condition. The exuberant rhetoric of his work belies an equally strong devotion to artistry, what he once called "my craft or sullen art." His great "Fern Hill," for example, builds its imagery of the rejoicing innocence of childhood on a strict and demanding syllabic count. A recollection of boyhood holidays on the farm of his aunt and uncle, that poem places its emotion within an Edenic framework typical of Thomas's work. The impressive sonnet sequence "Altarwise by Owl-Light" (1936) combines the internal quest of romanticism with a more elaborate religious outlook in tracing the birth and spiritual autobiography of a poet. Almost at the end of his career he produced the moving elegy "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" (1952), written during the final illness of his father. Despite his periods of doubt and dissipation, Thomas celebrated the fullness of life. As he wrote in a note to his Collected Poems (1952), "These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusion, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren't." (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Nota de desambiguación:
(eng) Full name Dylan Marlais Thomas. On combining works of this author: Please take note that editions of the "Poems" can be different works (selections as opposed to complete works). Identical titles alone do not indicate identical works.
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Series
Obras de Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night 22 copias
Collected Prose of Dylan Thomas: Adventures in the Skin Trade; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog; Quite Early One… (1960) 11 copias
Dylan Thomas Reads: And Death Shall Have No Dominion, a Winter's Tale, on Reading Poetry Aloud and Other Selections (1992) 10 copias
Twenty-five poems 8 copias
A mão ao assinar este papel 8 copias
Svlékání tmy : Výbor z veršů 4 copias
New Poems 3 copias
The peaches 2 copias
In the Direction of the Beginning 2 copias
Piimmetsa vilus 2 copias
Uma Visão do Mar e Outras Histórias 2 copias
Gedichten 2 copias
Under Milk Wood 2 copias
Return Journey to Swansea 1 copia
The Enemies 1 copia
Viziune și rugă 1 copia
Seven poems 1 copia
La Playa de Falesá 1 copia
十月の詩 1 copia
Speak Up #173 1 copia
Dylan Thomas: poesie 1 copia
Piimmetsa vilus. Mäng häälele 1 copia
Dylan Thomas : Word and Image : An Exhibition Based on the Jeff Towns / Dylans Bookstore Collection 1 copia
A Boy Growing Up (Program) 1 copia
The Londoner 1 copia
Rebecca’s dochters 1 copia
La playa de Falesá 1 copia
Patricia, Edith, And Arnold 1 copia
The Burning Baby 1 copia
Prose e racconti 1 copia
Poetry 1 copia
In My Craft or Sullen Art {poem} 1 copia
Time Life Books 1 copia
The doctor and the devils, etc 1 copia
Favole di cinema 1 copia
Dylan Thomas Reading, Volume 2 1 copia
Dylan Thomas : the poems 1 copia
Twenty-Six Poems 1 copia
More Dylan Thomas Reads: Adventures in the Skin Trade / Quite Early One Morning / and Other Poems 1 copia
Thomas Dylan 1 copia
Selected Stories 1 copia
緑の導火線 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 904 copias
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Contribuidor — 508 copias
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contribuidor — 247 copias
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contribuidor — 147 copias
The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art (1979) — Contribuidor — 85 copias
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Contribuidor — 40 copias
Kingfisher Christmas Book: A Collection of Stories, Poems and Carols for the Twelve Days of Christmas (1985) — Contribuidor — 26 copias
New World Writing: Fifth Mentor Selection - Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Criticism (1954) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
New World Writing: Third Mentor Selection - Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Criticism (1953) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Oskar Kokoschka, Städteportraits : Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien in Zusammenarbeit mit der Oskar… (1986) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
American Aphrodite (Volume Five, Number Nineteen) / London Aphrodite (1955) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
American Aphrodite: a Quarterly For The Fancy-Free (Volume 4, Number 14) (1954) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Contemporary British Short Stories II. George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, H. E. Bates. (1998) — Autor — 1 copia
The Time of Your Life: An Anthology of Short Stories — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Words Among America: Sixty Poems of Challenge and Hope — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Thomas, Dylan
- Nombre legal
- Thomas, Dylan Marlais
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1914-10-27
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1953-11-09
- Lugar de sepultura
- Saint Martin's Churchyard, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Wales
- País (para mapa)
- Wales, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Uplands, Swansea, Wales, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Swansea, South Wales, UK
- Educación
- Swansea Grammar School
- Relaciones
- Thomas, Caitlin (wife)
Thomas, Llewelyn Edouard (son)
Thomas, Aeronwy (daughter)
Thomas, Colm Garan Hart (son)
Campbell, Roy (friend)
Johnson, Pamela Hansford (romance) - Organizaciones
- South Wales Evening Post (junior reporter)
- Premios y honores
- Memorial in Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey
- Aviso de desambiguación
- Full name Dylan Marlais Thomas. On combining works of this author: Please take note that editions of the "Poems" can be different works (selections as opposed to complete works). Identical titles alone do not indicate identical works.
Miembros
Debates
1914: Dylan Thomas - Resources and General Discussion en Literary Centennials (Febrero 2015)
Reseñas
EL VISITANTE Y OTRAS HISTORIAS por Dylan Thomas
CLUB BRUGUERA
La Navidad para un niño en Gales es uno de los mejores relatos de Dylan Thomas y nos hará revivir nuestros recuerdos de la infancia. Dylan Thomas es algo más que un poeta: es toda una leyenda. Este relato nos lleva a un pueblo de la costa de Gales, lleno de gatos, carteros y niños ansiosos por jugar con la nieve, que cayó «durante seis días con sus noches cuando yo tenía doce años, o durante doce noches y doce días cuando tenía seis», según nos cuenta el autor al principio del libro.… (más)
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Dylan Thomas es algo más que un poeta: es toda una leyenda. Su nombre evoca el olor de las tabernas, la bohemia más desenfrenada, la enfermedad y la locura. Pero su poesía no queda atrapada por la figura mítica, por el personaje público, va mucho más allá. Sus versos siguen manteniendo vivo el original canto de libertad, de búsqueda, de alegría desesperada que convirtió a Dylan Thomas en uno de los renovadores de la poesía inglesa.
Navidad de un niño en Gales (inédito hasta ahora en castellano) es uno de los ejemplos más claros del credo poético de Dylan Thomas, en el que se entrelazan vigorosamente la pasión por la lengua y la nostalgia por el paraíso perdido. Ed. bilingüe.… (más)
Navidad de un niño en Gales (inédito hasta ahora en castellano) es uno de los ejemplos más claros del credo poético de Dylan Thomas, en el que se entrelazan vigorosamente la pasión por la lengua y la nostalgia por el paraíso perdido. Ed. bilingüe.… (más)
Listas
1950s (2)
Favourite Books (1)
Five star books (1)
Poetry Corner (2)
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- ISBNs
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