Dylan Thomas
Subtitle: a Literary Life
By: William Christie, Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney, Australia
Series: Literary lives
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781137322562
Subjects: Welsh Poets; Biography; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Description: "Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an accurate and unsensationalized account of the poet's life in the context of British and American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century, along with a critical reading of a selection of characteristic works in the many different genres in which Dylan Thomas worked, from the dense and rhetorically powerful lyrics which established his reputation through his stories and radio and film scripts to the triumphant 'play for voices', Under Milk Wood. This study is designed to close what has been called 'the yawning gap' between Thomas's popular and critical reputations, and is a major contribution to the revival and revision of the poet's work and reputation"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: AcknowledgementsPreface1. Uplands: Growing up in Cwmdonkin Drive2. Truant Years: Going (and not Going) to School3. 'A Bit of a shower-off': Performing in Swansea4. One-Track Mind: The Notebooks5. The Road out of Wales: Fame and Fitrovia6. 'From Love's First Fever': Love and War, Guile and Beer7. 'A crucial point in his career': Reinventing Dylan Thomas8. 'Radio's a building in the air': Lord Cut-Glass, Poet of the Airwaves9. 'My seashaken house on a breakneck of rocks': The Road to Laugharne10. 'O my America, my newfoundland': The Poet on Tour11. The Road to Milk WoodEpilogueAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex.