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A Dylan Thomas Companion - Life, Poetry and Prose

English · Paperback / Softback

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Opening with Thomas's life, the book offers vignettes of Swansea in the 1920s and 1930s, pre- and post-war Laugharne and rural West Wales, wartime London and New York City in the early 1950s, seen through the poet's eyes. Thomas's political views are focused on, as well as his social attitudes.

List of contents

Preface - Maps and Illustrations - PART I DYLAN THOMAS'S LIFE - PART II THE POETRY - Early Notebooks and Manuscript Verse - 18 Poems - Twenty-five Poems - The Map of Love - Deaths and Entrances - Collected Poems - Unfinished Poems - PART III THE PROSE - The Early Stories - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog - Adventures in the Skin Trade and The Death of the King's Canary - FILM SCRIPTS: Broadcasts, Last Stories and Letters - Film Scripts: The Doctor and the Devils - Twelve Hours in the Streets - Broadcasts: Quite Early One Morning - Last Stories: A Prospect of the Sea - The Collected Letters - Under Milk Wood - Notes - Bibliography - Index

Summary

Opening with Thomas's life, the book offers vignettes of Swansea in the 1920s and 1930s, pre- and post-war Laugharne and rural West Wales, wartime London and New York City in the early 1950s, seen through the poet's eyes. Thomas's political views are focused on, as well as his social attitudes.

Product details

Authors John Ackerman
Publisher Springer Palgrave Macmillan
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.1994
 
EAN 9780333607039
ISBN 978-0-333-60703-9
No. of pages 325
Dimensions 139 mm x 19 mm x 216 mm
Weight 444 g
Illustrations XVI, 325 p.
Series Literary Companions
MacMillan Literary Companions
Literary Companions
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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