In the following essay, McNees discusses religious imagery in Thomas's poetry.

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.

In the following essay, Korg divides Thomas's nonpoetic works into two areas: fantasies and straightforward narratives.

In the following essay, Tritshler examines Thomas's juvenilia, which is contained in his Red Notebook.

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below, Tritschler analyzes the changes made prior to the publication of the stories in Red Notebook, including the then unpublished “Gaspar, Melchior, Balthasar.”

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.

In the following essay, Ackerman explores the influence of Thomas's World War II experiences on his poetry collection Deaths and Entrances.

In the following essay, West attempts to sort through the varying critical assessments of Thomas's work.

In the following essay, Balakier discusses the conflicted feelings of a father for his daughter in Thomas's “In Country Sleep.”

In the following essay, West examines the stories contained in Thomas's collection, Adventures in the Skin Trade.

In the following essay, Gareth Thomas explores Thomas's writings from a linguistic perspective.

In the following essay, Korg analyzes the poetic and straightforward narrative styles that characterize Thomas's stories.

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.

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.

In the following essay, Heaney examines Thomas's critical reputation in the years since his death.

In the following essay, Volsik examines Thomas's participation in the British neo-Romanticism movement of the 1930s through the 1950s.

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.

In the following essay, Hardy discusses nature themes and imagery in Thomas's poetry.

In the following essay, Tinkler examines the differences between Thomas's poetry and prose.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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" and features a selection of Jungian archetypes.]

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.

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 correspondence.

In the following essay, Ackerman defends Thomas's prose as equal in importance to his poetry.

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.

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 rather than to Yeats's poetry, as is commonly believed.

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 lose his vitality.

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 Young Man.

In the following review of Thomas's Collected Stories, Peterson believes Thomas could not sustain longer works of fiction.

In the following review of Thomas's Collected Stories, Levi decides that Thomas never matured as a prose writer.

In the following review of The Collected Stories, Stonehill provides a brief appreciation.