| The lyrics of Dylan Thomas are not to be
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| | poet to have a few big numbers with a
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| divorced from the legend of his life or
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| | catchy line or two. Memorability ensures
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| lifestyle. You can visit the Cultural
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| | durability. Thomas achieved that
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| Heritage Boat House at Laugharne to see
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| | memorability and a couple of his poems
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| his grave, have a Welsh cream tea and buy
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| | were overworked - 'Do Not Go Gentle Into
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| souvenirs. Dylan Marlais Thomas came from
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| | That Good Night', written on the death of
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| Swansea, a port town in South Wales. He
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| | his father, and 'And Death Shall Have No
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| never learned to read the Welsh language,
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| | Dominion'. The latter was read in 1989 at
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| (which the English had attempted to
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| | the funeral of Laurence Olivier who was
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| suppress,) but he listened to its lilts
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| | only the second actor to be interred in
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| and rhythms and knew its deep poetic
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| | Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, the
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| tradition - a tradition of poet as bard
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| | other being Edmund Kean in 1833. It
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| and priest. Welsh chapel and the Bible
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| | served as nominally secular verse in
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| lay at the back of his mind as well,
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| | place of the English Bible and Book of
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| inescapably.
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| | Common Prayer.
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| His father was an English master at
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| | Thomas's style of verse employs free
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| Swansea Grammar School, which Thomas
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| | association and musical concatenations.
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| attended, and introduced his son to
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| | It sounds musical, but is this its sole
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| poetry. His mother was the daughter of a
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| | effect - as word music where sense is
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| farmer and took her son into the
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| | secondary to euphonic syntax? Philip
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| countryside to visit her parents at what
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| | Larkin disapproved of Thomas's style
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| became the poetic 'Fern Hill' in Deaths
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| | because he felt the verse was too
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| and Entrances (1946).
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| | personalised and lacked communicative
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| On leaving school at 16 Thomas worked as
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| | force; whereas Larkin strove for a
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| a trainee reporter and wrote for local
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| | condensation or distillation of sense and
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| newspapers. His first two verse
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| | meaning: he sought the quintessential
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| publications were 18 Poems (1934) and
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| | pinhead not the angels dancing on it.
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| Twenty Five Poems (1936). Following the
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| | Thomas was a pioneer in utilising the
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| appearance of his first book he moved to
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| | mass medium of radio along with his BBC
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| London where he lived until after the
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| | colleague Louis MacNeice. He wrote film
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| Second World War, always broke, always
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| | scripts during the war and completed The
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| borrowing money, often drunk. He married
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| | Doctor and the Devils in 1947 concerning
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| Caitlin Macnamara who was to bear him
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| | the Edinburgh murderers Burke and Hare;
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| three children and who outlived him by
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| | but the post-war policy of avoiding
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| over forty years.
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| | violent subjects left the script on the
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| Thomas was unfit for military service and
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| | Rank shelf for nearly four decades. Under
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| worked for the BBC during the war. His
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| | Milk Wood - A Play for Voices and A
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| voice had an exceptionally mellifluous
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| | Child's Christmas in Wales were written
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| quality that survives in many recordings.
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| | for radio performance and both work
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| At the start of the Blitz he composed one
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| | through the ear and not the reader's eye.
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| of his best-known poems 'Refusal to Mourn
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| | They did not appear in print until after
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| the Death, By Fire, of a Child in
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| | the author's death. Under Milk Wood was
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| London'. He thrived on talking to the
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| | first read at The Poetry Center in New
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| radio microphone, but, although he went
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| | York in 1953. It was performed on BBC
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| on lecture tours in the US he disliked
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| | Radio in 1954 and filmed with Richard
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| reading his own works to a live audience.
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| | Burton in 1971.
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| In 1947 he suffered a nervous collapse
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| | In pursuit of money Thomas gave three
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| brought on by the strains of his
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| | lecture tours in the United States. He
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| marriage, his drinking and his
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| | died in New York in 1953, at the age of
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| impecunity. He owed back-taxes to the
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| | 39, after allegedly drinking 18 straight
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| Inland Revenue. The Thomases moved into a
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| | whiskies. But there are conflicting
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| garden shed at the house of the historian
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| | accounts of the events leading up to his
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| A. J. P. Taylor in Cambridge. When they
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| | death to which an overdose of morphine
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| had outstayed their welcome, the Taylors
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| | may have contributed.
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| bought the Boat House at Laugharne and
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| | Read the full version of this essay at
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| presented it to Dylan and Caitlin.
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| | literature-study-online.
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| Considering the verse, it's as well for a
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