Dylan Thomas

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Dylan Thomas

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born
October 27, 1914 in Swansea, Wales, The United Kingdom

died
November 09, 1953

gender
male

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The Bible, Welsh Folklore, Preaching & Freud


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Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet. He is regarded by many as one of the 20th century's most influential poets.

In addition to poetry, Thomas also wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, with the latter frequently performed by Thomas himself. His public readings, particularly in America, won him great acclaim; his booming, at times ostentatious, voice with a subtle Welsh lilt, became almost as famous as his works. His best-known works include the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood and the celebrated villanelle for his dying father, 'Do not go gentle into that good night'. Appreciative critics have also noted the superb craftsmanship and compression of poems such as 'In my craft or sullen art' and the rhapsodic lyricism of Fern...more


Average rating: 4.17 · 9,113 ratings · 511 reviews · 101 distinct works
Collected Poems (1934-1952)
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 4,670 ratings — published 1952 — 41 editions
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Under Milk Wood
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 1,565 ratings — published 1954 — 52 editions
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 1,035 ratings — published 1952 — 30 editions
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Portrait of the Artist as a...
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 592 ratings — published 1940 — 14 editions
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Adventures in the Skin Trade
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 1956 — 14 editions
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Quite Early One Morning
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1954 — 4 editions
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The Collected Stories
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions
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The Poems of Dylan Thomas
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4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2003
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The Dylan Thomas Omnibus
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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A Child's Christmas in Wale...
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions
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More books by Dylan Thomas…
“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
Dylan Thomas

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Dylan Thomas

“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
Dylan Thomas

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