Dylan Thomas- Green Fuse
Thomas, Dylan Marlais was a Welsh poet, short-story writer, and playwright, renowned for his dramatic and theatrical public readings, his celebration of natural beauty, and his alcoholism.
He was born October 27th, 1914 at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive in Swansea, Wales to David John Thomas, a teacher of English at the Swansea Grammar School, and Florence Thomas, a staunch Christian chapl-goer; Thomas had one sibling, a sister, Nancy. He was a neurotic, sickly child who shied away from school and preferred reading on his own; he read all D. H. Lawrence’s poetry, and was impressed by Lawrence’s description of a vivid natural world, (in true Wordsworth, Coleridge tradition I might add.) But, nonetheless in 1925 began schooling at the Swansea Grammar School, where he, in his fascination language excelled in English and reading, but neglected his other subjects and dropped out when his was 16. He did, however, edit the school magazine, while he was there, and publish his first poem “The Song of the Mischievous Dog.”
When he was 20, in 1924, his first book, Eighteen Poems was published to great acclaim. In 1931 he worked as a reporter for the South Wales Daily Post , and “And Death Shall Have No Dominion” was published in The New English Weekly. He then moved to London in 1934 and was subsequently awarded The Sunday Referee’s second “Poet’s Corner” prize. 1936 brought on the publishing of his second book, twenty-five poems and in 1937 was his first radio broadcast reading his own poetry and also the year he married his wife, Caitlin Macnamara. Two years later, in 1939, he published two books, The World I Breathe and The Map of Love, and his first son Llewellyn was born.
The 1940’s really, in my opinion, began his professional career as a writer: in 1941 he started writing screenplays for the Strand Film Company, who were noted mostly for war propaganda films; in 1945 he was awarded the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine....
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