biography
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Thomas, Dylan (Marlais)
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| lived:
| (1914–53)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Swansea, SC Wales, UK. He worked as a journalist, and established himself with the publication of Eighteen Poems in 1934. He married Caitlin Macnamara (1913–94) in 1936, and published Twenty-Five Poems the same year. His Collected Poems appeared in 1953, and he then produced his best-known work, the radio ‘play for voices’, Under Milk Wood (published in 1954). He also wrote an unfinished novel, Adventures in the Skin Trade (1955), and several collections of short stories, many of which were written originally for radio. All his work, whether in verse or prose, shows rhythmic drive and verbal flamboyance. He became an alcoholic in later years, and died on a lecture-tour of the USA. |
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