Dylan Thomas |
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| Author:
| Goodby, John
Wigginton, Chris |
| Series title: | Critical Lives Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78914-932-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2024 |
| Publisher: | Reaktion Books, Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $22.00 |
Book Description:
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An accessible introduction to the life and work of the inventive Welsh poet. Dylan Thomas--author of some of the century's greatest poetry, stories, and film scripts as well as one of the greatest radio features ever broadcast,
Under Milk Wood--is often characterized as self-indulgent. This concise and up-to-date biography challenges this depiction with a fresh portrait of the artist as a consummate professional. John Goodby and Chris...
More Description An accessible introduction to the life and work of the inventive Welsh poet.
Dylan Thomas--author of some of the century's greatest poetry, stories, and film scripts as well as one of the greatest radio features ever broadcast, Under Milk Wood--is often characterized as self-indulgent. This concise and up-to-date biography challenges this depiction with a fresh portrait of the artist as a consummate professional. John Goodby and Chris Wigginton locate the source of Thomas's daring and inventive style in the poet's Anglo-Welsh origins as well as his historical, cultural, and social contexts: the Great Depression and 1930s literary London, surrealism, World War II, and Cold War popular culture. The result is a revealing and fresh introduction to the life and work of this important Welsh writer.