Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer who is most famous for the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion." He had a reputation as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet," which he enjoyed, and he died at only 39 years old.
Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, to a seamstress and an English teacher. He left school at the age of 16 to become a journalist and writer. Many of his most famous works were published when he was only a teenager and he was very popular during his lifetime, best known for his radio recordings of his work for the BBC in the 1940s and his readings in the United States. Thomas is particularly acclaimed for the rhythmic, musical sound of his poetry and his vivid imagery, and he is often considered one of the greatest modern poets.
Dylan Thomas, who lived from 1914 to 1953 and was born in Swansea, Wales, is Wales’s most famous poet, a modernist poet whose writing also exhibited romanticist tendencies. “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” written in 1947, is Thomas’s most...
Although best-known for his poems (including classics like "Do not go gentle into that good night"), Welshman Dylan Thomas wrote a number of unproduced screenplays and plays during his long and illustrious career. Among those plays is The Doctor...
The nature of Dylan Thomas lies in the tragic characteristics of the drama extending to his life. It is plagued by tales of alcoholism, jealousy, and penury. Yet, despite engaging in excessive self-indulgence, Thomas launched himself into writing...
“Fern Hill” was written in 1944 and published in 1946 in Thomas’s book Deaths and Entrances. It was written during what critics consider the last period of Thomas’s career, in which he concentrated on longer narrative poems with vivid imagery. It...
“The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower” was published as part of Dylan Thomas' first collection of poetry, 18 Poems, which was published to great acclaim in 1934, when Thomas was only 19 years old. The book helped Thomas earn a...
Though Irish poet Dylan Thomas didn't survive to see his 40th birthday, he is responsible for some of the world's most famous poems. "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" is one such poem. First published in 1945 in Horizon...
