Dylan Thomas a Literary Life /
"Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an accurate and unsensationalized account of the poet's life in the context of British and American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century, along with a critical reading of a selection of characteristic works in the many different...
| Main Author: | Christie, William, 1952- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Physical Description: |
xv, 228 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series: |
Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Uplands: Growing up in Cwmdonkin Drive
- Truant Years: Going (and not Going) to School
- 'A Bit of a shower-off': Performing in Swansea
- One-Track Mind: From Notebook Poems to 18 Poems
- The Road out of Wales: Fame and Fitzrovia
- 'From Love's First Fever': Love and War, Guile and Beer
- 'A crucial point in his career': Reinventing Dylan Thomas
- 'Radio's a building in the air': Lord Cut-Glass, Poet of the Airwaves
- 'My seashaken house on a breakneck of rocks': The Road to Laugharne
- 'O my America! My new-found-land': The Poet on Tour
- The Road to Milk Wood.