Dylan Thomas
Distributed for University of Wales Press
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. ‘Begin at the beginning’: introductory
2. ‘The sideboard fruit, the ferns’: the poet in suburbia
3. ‘The loud hill of Wales’: the Welshness of the work
4. ‘I’ll put them all in a story by and by’: aspects of the prose
5. ‘Now my saying shall be my undoing’: the need to change
6. ‘Criss-cross rhythms’: comparisons of earlier and later poems
7. ‘Ann’s bard on a raised hearth’: towards ‘After the funeral (In Memory of Ann Jones)’
8. ‘Mostly bare I would lie down’: a creative decade ends in war
9. ‘Arc-lamped thrown back upon the cutting flood’; ‘This unbelievable lack of wires’: wartime, film work, broadcasts
10. ‘We hid our fears in that murdering breath’: the war elegies
11. ‘Parables of sun light’: towards ‘Poem in October’, ‘Fern Hill’, ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ and beyond
12. ‘Is my voice being your eyes?’: Under Milk Wood
13. ‘The rhymer in the long tongued room’: writing places and the place of the poet
14. ‘As I sail out to die’: the late poems
15. ‘The hero’s head lies scraped of every legend’: the legend and the man
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
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