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Famous for seminal poems such as ''Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night'', ''And Death Shall Have No Dominion'' and ''A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London'', Dylan Thomas was the author of a substantial body of poetry, which he began writing as a teenager and continued to expand until the end of his short and troubled life. This fully annotated volume presents all of Thomas''s surviving poems, including those published during his lifetime and those collected after his death in 1953. Taken together, they showcase the linguistic brilliance, rhythmic inventiveness and sheer poetical genius of the great modern Welsh bard. Famous for seminal poems such as ''Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night'', ''And Death Shall Have No Dominion'' and ''A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London'', Dylan Thomas was the author of a substantial body of poetry, which he began writing as a teenager and continued to expand until the end of his short and troubled life. This fully annotated volume presents all of Thomas''s surviving poems, including those published during his lifetime and those collected after his death in 1953. Taken together, they showcase the linguistic brilliance, rhythmic inventiveness and sheer poetical genius of the great modern Welsh bard.
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Noted for his original rhythmic style and inventive use of words and imagery, the Welsh poet dylan thomas (1914-53) is remembered today for a large body of poems - among them 'And Death Shall Have No Dominion' and 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' - a play for voices (Under Milk Wood) and a collection of short stories (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog).
