Biography EssayDylan Thomas's life, work, and stature among twentieth-century poets are all matters of controversy and speculation. An essentially shy and modest man when sober, Thomas called himself ...
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The Welsh poet Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914-1953) has been acclaimed as one of the most important poets of the century. His lyrics rank among the most powerful and captivating of modern poetry.Dylan Tho...
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Dylan Thomas is as much remembered for his persona--the fiery young romantic with the Welsh brogue--as for his poetry. The work of Thomas has occasioned much critical commentary, although critics shar...
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Primarily known as a poet and writer of stories and reminiscences, Dylan Thomas also has considerable fame as a dramatist because of the single work Under Milk Wood, a play originally written for radi...
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Dylan Thomas's life, work, and stature among twentieth-century poets are all matters of controversy and speculation. An essentially shy and modest man when sober, Thomas called himself the "captain of...
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Dylan Thomas is recognized as a poet first, a scoundrel second, and a writer of fiction third. Thomas is, however, worthy of critical examination as a writer of fiction, especially short stories (thou...
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In the following essay, West attempts to sort through the varying critical assessments of Thomas's work.
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According to Wordsworth, “all men feel something of an honourable bigotry for t...
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In the following essay, Heaney examines Thomas's critical reputation in the years since his death.
Dylan Thomas is by now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. Mention o...
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In the following essay, Balakier discusses the conflicted feelings of a father for his daughter in Thomas's “In Country Sleep.”
Among the relatively few father-daughter poems in t...
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In the following essay, Cyr contends that Thomas's treatment of impending death in “Do not go gentle into that good night” is more closely connected to Shakespeare's play r...
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In the following essay, Hardy discusses nature themes and imagery in Thomas's poetry.
The Theme of Nature
There are very few of Thomas's poems which do not offer a meditation on nature. ...
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In the following essay, Schwarz discusses “A Winter's Tale,” maintaining that the poem was written within the tradition of Romanticism, as well as in response to that tradition.
D...
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In the following essay, McKay compares the structure of Thomas's poetry, particularly the sonnets, with that of Thomas Hardy, reportedly Thomas's favorite poet.
One interesting entrance ...
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In the following essay, Davies examines Thomas's writings within the geographical context of his origins as well as within the cultural context of Modernism.
‘I never thought that locali...
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In the following essay, Volsik examines Thomas's participation in the British neo-Romanticism movement of the 1930s through the 1950s.
In this article I do not wish to discuss the much-commente...
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In the following essay, Gareth Thomas explores Thomas's writings from a linguistic perspective.
In a letter to Pamela Hansford Johnson, dated 9 May 1934, the precocious 19-year-old Dylan Thomas...
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In the following essay, Bold explores the themes within Thomas's poetry of lost childhood innocence and the adult's ability to recapture that innocence through the imagination.
Since his...
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In the following essay, Ackerman explores the influence of Thomas's World War II experiences on his poetry collection Deaths and Entrances.
Deaths and Entrances was published in 1946, and the t...
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In the following essay, McNees discusses religious imagery in Thomas's poetry.
… the story of the New Testament is part of my life.
—“Poetic Manifesto”
Aligned with...
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In the excerpt below, Stanford describes Thomas's provocative use of language in the stories of Map of Love and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
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The seven stories in The Map of Love exh...
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In the following excerpt, Ackerman compares the themes and use of language in Thomas's early short stories, written between 1934 and 1939, to those of his early poetry.
Thomas's prose is...
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In the excerpt below, Tritschler analyzes the changes made prior to the publication of the stories in Red Notebook, including the then unpublished “Gaspar, Melchior, Balthasar.”
Dylan Th...
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In the following review of Thomas's Collected Stories, Levi decides that Thomas never matured as a prose writer.
Dylan Thomas might have been alive today. He never lived to be 40; he died 30 ye...
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In the following review of The Collected Stories, Stonehill provides a brief appreciation.
What is the gift that some storytellers have of immediately enwrapping us? A walk through this collection by ...
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From a study of religion, repression, and sexual violence, Peach discusses in the essay below, Thomas's use of imagery and symbolism to express the darker side of sexuality.
Late in the Spring,...
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In the following excerpt, Rowe maintains that Thomas refashioned his own middle-class childhood in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog to make it more palatable.
Dylan Thomas is pre-eminently a reme...
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In the following essay, Korg analyzes the poetic and straightforward narrative styles that characterize Thomas's stories.
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Thomas was as prolific a writer of prose as he was of verse. He publi...
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In the following essay, Korg divides Thomas's nonpoetic works into two areas: fantasies and straightforward narratives.
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Thomas was as prolific a writer of prose as of verse. He published the ...
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In the following essay, Ackerman defends Thomas's prose as equal in importance to his poetry.
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Dylan Thomas's recognition as a major twentieth century writer, both in popularity and ach...
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In the following review of Thomas's Collected Stories, Peterson believes Thomas could not sustain longer works of fiction.
In “Where Tawe Flows,” one of twenty early stories in th...
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In the following review of The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas, Davies praises editor (and Thomas biographer) Paul Ferris for correcting errors in previous publications of Thomas's correspond...
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In the following essay, West examines the stories contained in Thomas's collection, Adventures in the Skin Trade.
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According to Wordsworth, “all men feel something of an honourable bigo...
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In the following essay, Davies examines the influences of Thomas Hardy, the Mabinogion, Charles Dickens, Ambrose Bierce, and others on Thomas's stories and film scripts.
Brander Matthews once p...
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In the following essay, Kelly believes that the themes and structure of Thomas's short story “One Warm Saturday” are derived from James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a ...
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In the following essay, Pratt focuses on Thomas's early fiction, and applies Jungian psychology to determine the author's mental state when the stories were written.
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Dylan Thomas never...
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In the following essay, Tritshler examines Thomas's juvenilia, which is contained in his Red Notebook.
Dylan Thomas filled at least four copybooks with poetry and one, the Red Notebook,1 with s...
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In the following essay, Bruns attempts to find the sources of inspiration for the stories contained in Thomas's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
One of the most fascinating themes in lite...
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In the following essay, Davies examines canine allusions in Thomas's short stories, which he feels reveals the author's youthful bravado as well as his resolution that he is destined to ...
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In the following essay, Tinkler examines the differences between Thomas's poetry and prose.
The manuscript of Adventures in the Skin Trade, Dylan Thomas's first sustained piece of prose ...
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In the following essay, Ferguson contends that Dylan Thomas's sea voyage poem "Ballad of the Long-legged Bait" relates a "quest for [the integration of personality" ...
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Dylan Marlais Thomas
Dylan Thomas
Dylan (Marlais) Thomas
