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  Neurotic Poets: Dylan Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Within hours of their first meeting Dylan, his head in her lap, kept drunkenly insisting that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever met and that he was going to marry her--to which she offered no objections.
Regardless of the reputation Dylan Thomas had gained, the article was full of gross exaggeration and the poet began proceedings to sue the magazine for libel.
Thomas had been receiving cortisone injections as treatment for his illness and tiredness while in New York, though they were not wholly successful in alleviating the problems.
www.neuroticpoets.com /thomas   (3821 words)

  
 Dylan Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dylan Thomas was born in the coastal city of Swansea, Wales.
Dylan Thomas is widely considered one of the greatest twentieth-century poets writing in English.
The graves of Dylan and Caitlin from findagrave.com
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dylan_Thomas   (1584 words)

  
 Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas died in the United States on a tour on November 9, 1953.
Dylan Thomas was born in the seaport town Swansea, West Glamorgan.
The marriage was stormy; Thomas was a natural bohemian and eventually Caitlin became tired in her husband's frecklessness.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /dthomas.htm   (1427 words)

  
 The Life of Dylan Thomas.
Dylan and Caitlin's daughter Aeronwy was named after the river Aeron which flows through the Aeron valley to Aberaeron, and about which Dylan said was: 'the most precious place in the world'.
Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in the upstairs front bedroom of his parents newly built house at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea.
Dylan and Caitlin enjoyed happy times at 'Sea View' and as war approached Thomas demonstrated his concern at the possibility of losing his home in a letter to his Father: ‘These are awful days and we are very worried.
www.newquay-westwales.co.uk /dylan_thomas.htm   (3282 words)

  
 Dylan Marlais Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales on 27 October 1914.
In July 1994 his wife, Caitlin Thomas died in Italy, where she had spent most of the years of her life after the death of Dylan Thomas.
Aeronwy Thomas, the poets daughter, is Patron of the Society.
www.levity.com /corduroy/thomas.htm   (408 words)

  
 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)

  
 Dylan Thomas: Biography Project: biographical information, links, bibliography and more
Dylan Marlais Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales on October 27, 1914.
Dylan Thomas' incredible use of metaphor, meter, and a comic wit, allows his work to stand alone, balancing a reckless neo-Romantic sensuality against the more staid Puritanism of his time and culture.
The Dylan Thomas Photo Album: I believe this is a photo album with a variety of Dylan Thomas quotes scattered throughout...
www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/dylan_thomas.html   (1411 words)

  
 Dylan Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Thomas is one of the best-known Welsh poets of the mid-20
Thomas was only 19 in 1934 when his first volume of poetry, 18 Poems, was released as a result of a prize.
Thomas was rejected from the army during the war and worked at the documentary film unit.
www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/thomas_dylan.htm   (330 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on 27 October 1914 at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive in what he was to refer to as the “ugly, lovely town” of Swansea, south Wales.
Dylan’s father was a Bible-reading atheist, his mother a devout chapel-goer, and their mutual tolerance might be sensed in the enigmatic spiritualism of the poet’s own work, what William Empson has described as his “pantheistic pessimism”.
Dylan’s own sickliness as a child (fragile bones, lung haemorrhages, bronchitis, asthma, a possible liver complaint), together with Hannah’s extreme anxiety, can be linked plausibly to both the physical fixations of the poetry and the self-abusive vivacity of the poet.
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5471   (647 words)

  
 Dylan Marlais Thomas - famous Swansea son
Dylan Marlais Thomas was born at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Uplands, Swansea, Wales on 27 October 1914.
Although Dylan was primarily a poet, he also published film scripts, short stories, publicly performed his works and conducted radio broadcasts; one of his most famous works, "Under Milk Wood" - set in a fictional Welsh seaside town - was a radio play for voices which contained a poetic sensibility.
The centre is the focus for an annual Dylan Thomas Festival, which celebrates the life and works of one of the city's most notable sons.
www.welshwales.co.uk /dylan.htm   (1983 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Dylan Thomas Reading His Poetry: Livres en anglais: Dylan Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Because Dylan Thomas often wrote as much for the sound of his poetry as for its meaning, he was extraordinarily well-suited to the task of interpreting his own works on audio, the more so for his unforgettably rich voice and dramatic style.
Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales on 27 October 1914.
In June 1994, his wife, Caitlin Thomas, died in Italy, where she had spent most of the years of her life after the death of Dylan Thomas.
www.amazon.fr /Dylan-Thomas-Reading-His-Poetry/dp/0007179456   (426 words)

  
 Dylan Thomas - MSN Encarta
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet, short-story writer, and playwright, renowned for the unique brilliance of his verbal imagery and for his celebration of natural beauty.
Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, on October 27, 1914.
After the war Thomas was a literary commentator for BBC radio.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761564383   (351 words)

  
 Dylan Thomas - Works by Dylan Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Dylan’s first collection of poems was published in December 1934, a month after his twentieth birthday.
Dylan’s famous ‘play for voices’ was first published in book form in 1954, and has never been out of print.
Dylan’s much-loved tale of Christmas is available in a book on its own in several different editions and sizes.
www.dylanthomas.com /index.cfm?articleid=5009   (252 words)

  
 Dylan Thomas - Dylan Thomas Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Dylan was born on October 27, 1914 at No 5, Cwmdonkin Drive in Swansea, and died on November 9, 1953 in St Vincent's Hospital, New York.
This site is intended to promote Dylan's poetry and prose for both enjoyment and educational purposes.
You will find the fullest chronology of Dylan's life yet published, which has been researched over the last five years, and is illustrated with quotes from his work.
www.dylanthomas.com   (274 words)

  
 Gale - Free Resources - Poet's Corner - Biographies - Dylan Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Thomas was born at home in the Uplands district of Swansea, Wales, on October 27, 1914, the second child and only son of middle-class parents.
Thomas feared, respected, and deepy loved his father, and in some sense his life appeared to be an attempt to realize his father's frustrated dream of being a great poet.
Thomas emerged from the war years a respected literary figure and popular performer; however, his gregarious social life and the excessive drinking it encouraged seriously interfered with his writing.
www.gale.com /free_resources/poets/bio/thomas_d.htm   (983 words)

  
 Poetry: Dylan Thomas
Consequently, his early life (as well as the lives of his wife and children) was darkened by a poverty compounded by his free spending and heavy drinking.
A self-proclaimed romanticist, Thomas called his poetry a "record of [his] struggle from darkness towards some measure of light." The Map of Love appeared in 1939 and Deaths and Entrances in 1946.
Later, as a radio playwright and screenwriter, Thomas delighted in the sounds of words, sometimes at the expense of sense.
bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks_schilb/poetry/thomas.htm   (225 words)

  
 A Dylan Thomas Trilogy (revised version), John Corigliano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
But I'd already completed half of what would become A Dylan Thomas Trilogy before I realized what the piece should be -- a memory play in the form of an oratorio -- and it was only this past summer, almost 40 years after I first encountered Thomas's poetry, that I actually completed it.
A Dylan Thomas Trilogy was given its premiere as a full-evening work in 1976.
There are moments in A DYLAN THOMAS TRILOGY, the 75-minute oratorio by John Corigliano, when words by the late Welsh poet and music by the very much alive American composer fused into an affecting, deeply felt tonic for the listener.
www.schirmer.com /composers/corigliano_dylan_thomas.html   (1459 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Wales | South West Wales | Curtain rises on 'virtual' Dylan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A computer-generated Dylan Thomas reading one of the poet's most famous works is due to be launched in Swansea.
The recording of Thomas reciting the poem used in the short film was made on 22 February, 1952.
Dylan Thomas's daughter Aeronwy will not be there but she has described it as a "tour de force".
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/south_west/4418426.stm   (563 words)

  
 The Academy of American Poets - Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas was born in Wales in 1914.
He was a neurotic, sickly child who shied away from school and preferred reading on his own; he read all of D.
Thomas first visited America in January 1950, at the age of thirty-five.
www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/150   (239 words)

  
 Salon.com
On February 22, 1952, Dylan Thomas made his first recording for Caedmon Records, "A Child's Christmas in Wales and Five Poems." It was the first of many albums Thomas was to record for Caedmon and the recording not only launched Caedmon as a company, but initiated the spoken-word industry as well.
Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 1 Download and listen to the entire Dylan Thomas CD "A Child's Christmas in Wales and Five Poems," with a new introduction by Poet Laureate Billy Collins.
Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 9 The ninth installment features Thomas performing his play "Under Milkwood" together with the original cast.
www.salon.com /premium/downloads/dylan_thomas/index.html   (638 words)

  
 BBC - South West Wales - Hall of Fame
Born to David John Thomas and Florence Hannah Williams, Dylan's father was an English teacher at Swansea Grammar School.
Many of Dylan's childhood summers were spent at his aunt's farm in Carmarthenshire, a time which would later inspire him to write the poem 'Fern Hill';.
Dylan Thomas spent much of the Second World War living and working in London where he wrote film and documentary scripts, and in 1940 his work 'Portrait of The Artist As A Young Dog' was published.
www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southwest/halloffame/arts/dylanthomas.shtml   (628 words)

  
 Thomas, Dylan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The prose Thomas published is fragmented into stories and sketches, many autobiographical or pseudo-autobiographical, all touched with fantasy; they are collected in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940), Adventures in the Skin Trade (1955), and Quite Early One Morning (1955).
Thomas greatly enjoyed his success but lived recklessly and drank heavily.
The autobiography of Thomas’s wife, Caitlin Thomas, Leftover Life to Kill (1957), and the account of the Thomases’ tours by J. Brinnin, Dylan Thomas in America (1955), vividly describe his last years.
www.bartleby.com /65/th/ThomasD.html   (416 words)

  
 Dylan Thomas | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Thomas is such a National Treasure in Wales, partly *because* of that voice, that I never thought to think about it critically.
Thomas was famous for his melodious voice in his day, but I also find it too proclamatory for my taste.
Dylan isn't quite as universally loved in the land of his fathers as the tourist board would have you believe.
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 Dylan Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Thomas' poems first appeared in the Sunday Referee in 1933 in a feature column called the "Poets' Corner," edited by Victor Neuburg and Runia Sheila MacLeod.
Dylan Thomas became the second recipient of the prize, which he won for the second of seven poems he published in "Poets' Corner," "The Force that through the Grass Fuse Drives the Flower."
Thomas misspelled Tindall's name, crossed it out, wrote it in correctly, and re-signed it.
www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/english/thomas.html   (237 words)

  
 Following is a transcript of a spoken interview conducted by Dylan-Thomas Vance’s publicist, Kristin Valinsky in ...
Dylan’s answers and commentary are printed in plain text.
I was born in Minnesota May 18, 1971 in a town called Wadena, which is in the middle of the state, south of the cities.
And my dad’s contribution was that he was always listening to music, he was like the quintessential stoner hippy guy putting on headphones in the back yard listening to Dark Side of the Moon and Bob Dylan and The Who, Led Zepplin and the Rolling Stones and all that stuff.
www.dylanthomasvance.com /_vault/media/documents/vanceinterview.htm   (5194 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dylan Thomas:The Caedmon CD Collection: Books: Dylan Thomas,Thomas Dylan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In fact, Dylan Thomas was the first to record for this new label, started by two 22-year-old women, Marianne Roney and Barbara Cohen.
Thomas was a skilled and lyrical writer and captures much of the musicality of Welsh speaking people in his works.
What Thomas does best is to guide your imagination into his world and this set allows you to experience his work in the best way read by the man himself.
www.amazon.com /Dylan-Thomas-Caedmon-CD-Collection/dp/0060790830   (1455 words)

  
 dylan thomas boathouse
Dylan Thomas online resources come and go; there are however about 100 useful sites on Thomas at any given time.
The first area places Dylan Thomas within the context of British writers of the 1930-50’s — writers, artists and friends and also includes a special link within this site of biographical information on the neglected poet Lynette Roberts.
Dylan Thomas: The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits.
www.dylanthomasboathouse.com /english/dylan/dtlinks.html   (277 words)

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