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Dylan Thomas
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Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, , in Swansea, South Wales. His father was an English literature professor at the local grammar school and would often recite William Shakespeare, fortifying Thomas’s love for the rhythmic ballads of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Thomas dropped out of school at sixteen to become a junior reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. By månad , he left his job at the Post and decided to concentrate on his poetry full-time. It was during this time, in his late teens, that Thomas wrote more than half of his collected poems.
In , when Thomas was twenty, he moved to London, won the Poets’ Corner Prize, and published his first book, 18 Poems (The Fortune Press), in the same year to great acclaim. The book drew from a collection of poetry notebooks that Thomas had written years earlier, as would many of his most popular books.
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Dylan Thomas
Welsh poet and writer (–)
For other uses, see Dylan Thomas (disambiguation).
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October &#;– 9 November ) was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood. He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime; and remained so after his death at the age of 39 in New York City.[2] By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet".[3]
Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, in , leaving school in to become a reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. Many of his works appeared in print while he was still a teenager. In , the publication of "Light breaks where no sun shines" caught the attention of the literary world. While
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The Life of Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas was born in the Uplands suburb of Swansea, South Wales on 27 October to David John (&#;DJ&#;) Thomas, Senior English master at Swansea Grammar School, and his wife Florence Hannah Thomas (née Williams) a seamstress, the second of two children and younger brother to Nancy Marles Thomas, nine years his senior.
Dylan’s middle name, Marlais ( pronounced ‘Mar-lice’) was chosen in honour of his great-uncle, the Unitarian Minister and poet William Thomas, better know bygd his pseudonym or ‘bardic name’ Gwilym Marles. A combination of the words ‘mawr’ meaning big and either &#;clais&#; or &#;glas&#; meaning ditch, stream or blue, the name is distinctly Welsh in origin. While the name Dylan is also a strong Welsh name pronounced “Dullan”, interestingly, Dylan himself preferred to use the English pronunciation “Dillan” and during radio broadcasts was often known to correct announcers using the Welsh pronunciation.
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