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| | Amazon.com: Dylan Thomas: Books: Andrew Lycett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Dylan Thomas, the son of a remote, alcoholic schoolmaster father and a naive, overprotective mother, had grown up in a household under perpetual financial stress and had gone to work for a Swansea newspaper rather than to a university. |
 | | Dylan Thomas, "the Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive," was born on Oct. 27, 1914, in Swansea, Wales. |
 | | Lycett describes Dylan Thomas as "this oddly religious man who lived outside any formal creed," and who, "caught between Muse [poetry] and Mermaid [a tavern], wrote of "the absurdity of life in the midst of mortality, and of the inevitability of death. |
| www.amazon.com /Dylan-Thomas-Andrew-Lycett/dp/1585675415 (3394 words) |
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