Dylan Thomas [electronic resource] : A Literary Life /
Christie, W.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Poetry and Poetics.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.