when did dylan thomas write do not go gentle into that good night
Do not go gentle into that good night. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  Do not go gentle into that good night  is a poem in the form of a villanelle, and the most famous work of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914â1953). Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, it was actually written in 1947 when he was in Florence with his family.