Dylan Thomas : A Literary Life / by W. Christie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christie, W., Author.

Series:

Literary Lives, 2946-2045

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Poetry.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

European literature.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Poetry and Poetics.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Local Subjects:

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Poetry and Poetics.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an account of the poet's life, along with a critical reading of his work, that is designed to close what has been called 'the yawning gap' between Dylan Thomas's popular and critical reputations.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Uplands: Growing Up in Cwmdonkin Drive; 2 Truant Years: Going (and Not Going) to School; 3 'A Bit of a Shower-Off': Performing in Swansea; 4 One-Track Mind: From Notebook Poems to 18 Poems; 5 The Road out of Wales: Fame and Fitzrovia; 6 'From Love's First Fever': Love and War, Guile and Beer; 7 'A Crucial Point in His Career': Reinventing Dylan Thomas; 8 'Radio's a Building in the Air': Lord Cut-Glass, Poet of the Airwaves; 9 'My Seashaken House on a Breakneck of Rocks': The Road to Laugharne; 10 'O My America! My New-Found-Land': The Poet on Tour

11 The Road to Milk WoodEpilogue; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781349458431

1349458430

9781137322579

1137322578

OCLC:

958081860