Dylan Thomas / Walford Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Walford, 1940- author.

Series:

Writers of Wales.

Writers of Wales

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.

Thomas, Dylan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, [Wales] : University of Wales Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An authoritative introduction by a leading Dylan Thomas scholar to the nature, cultural background, achievement and critical reception of this major poet's work.

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 'Begin at the beginning': introductory; 2 'The sideboard fruit, the ferns': the poet in suburbia; 3 'The loud hill of Wales': the Welshness of the work; 4 'I'll put them all in a story by and by': aspects of the prose; 5 'Now my saying shall be my undoing': the need to change; 6 'Criss-cross rhythms': comparisons of earlier and later poems; 7 'Ann's bard on a raised hearth': towards 'After the funeral (In Memory of Ann Jones)'; 8 'Mostly bare I would lie down': a creative decade ends in war

9 'Arc-lamped thrown back upon the cutting flood' 'This unbelievable lack of wires': wartime, film work, broadcasts; 10 'We hid our fears in that murdering breath': the war elegies; 11 'Parables of sun light': towards 'Poem in October','Fern Hill', 'Do not go gentle into that good night' and beyond; 12 'Is my voice being your eyes?': Under Milk Wood; 13 'The rhymer in the long tongued room': writing places and the place of the poet; 14 'As I sail out to die': the late poems; 15 'The hero's head lies scraped of every legend': the legend and the man; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 26, 2015).

ISBN:

9781783161522

1783161523

9781783160594

1783160594

OCLC:

876512233