Dylan Thomas (Writers of Wales) - Softcover

Davies, Walford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783160586 ISBN 13: 9781783160587

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2014

Synopsis

This critical study covers the whole range of Dylan Thomas's writing, both poetry and prose, in an accessible appraisal of the work and achievement of a major and dynamic poet. It interrelates the man and his national-cultural background by defining in detail the Welshness of his poetic temperament and critical attitudes, as both man and poet. At the same time, it illustrates Thomas's wide knowledge of and impact on the long and varied tradition of poetry in English. In that connection, it delineates and delimits Thomas's relationship to surrealism, compares and contrasts his work with that of other poets of the 1930s and 1940s, and shows how its power survives his early death in 1953, in the decade of the 'Movement' poets and beyond. A major aspect of this book is the close textual analysis of the works quoted; it explores anew the recognition due to the man who wrote the work, and helps us to separate the intrinsic achievement of the work from the foisted perceptions of the 'legend'.

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Review:

"Walford Davies's sympathetic introduction to the character and writing of Dylan Thomas, one of the great twentieth-century poets, is illuminating for new or experienced readers. His appraisal and close readings are warmly personal, rooted in Welsh literary and social culture."--Barbara Hardy, author of Dylan Thomas: An Original Language

About the Author:

Professor Walford Davies is a leading authority on the Dylan Thomas. He is the author of Dylan Thomas (Open University Press), co-editor with Ralph Maud of the definitive editions of Thomas's Collected Poems 1934-1953 and Under Milk Wood (Dent), and editor of Selected Poems and Under Milk Wood for Penguin.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1783160586
• ISBN 13: 9781783160587
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208