Dylan Thomas
Birthday:
27 October 1914, Swansea, Swansea County, Wales, UK
Birth Name:
Dylan Marlais Thomas
Dylan Thomas was born at the start of the First World War in the "ugly, lovely town" of Swansea, an industrial, coastal town on the South Wales Coast. He published his first volume of poetry, "Eighteen poems" in 1934 and went on to write many more volumes of poetry as well as many short stories, filmscripts, broadcast stories an...
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Dylan Thomas was born at the start of the First World War in the "ugly, lovely town" of Swansea, an industrial, coastal town on the South Wales Coast. He published his first volume of poetry, "Eighteen poems" in 1934 and went on to write many more volumes of poetry as well as many short stories, filmscripts, broadcast stories and talks. His work is mainly known for the darkly brooding Welsh Puritanism contrasting with the strong emotions and sensuality. Although regarded as a "Classic Welsh writer," he never spoke Welsh. He is best known for the poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" and the wonderful "Under Milk Wood." The latter was broadcast by the BBC with the subtitle "A play for voices" and, although people have since attempted films and plays, none are as successful as the simple radio version. Show less «
Last words: "I've just had 15 double whiskies. I think that might be a record."
Last words: "I've just had 15 double whiskies. I think that might be a record."
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
(He wrote while visiting America:) There seems, at first, to be no reality at all in the life here: It is all an enormous façade of speed a...Show more »
(He wrote while visiting America:) There seems, at first, to be no reality at all in the life here: It is all an enormous façade of speed and efficiency and power behind which millions of little individuals are wrestling, in vain, with their own anxieties. Show less «
