A Dylan Thomas Companion: Life, Poetry and Prose

by John Ackerman

Overview

Opening with Thomas's life, the book offers vignettes of Swansea in the 1920s and 1930s, pre- and postwar Laugharne and rural West Wales, wartime London and New York City in the early 1950s, seen through the poet's eyes. Thomas's political views are focused on, as well as his social and cultural attitudes - all evidenced in his letters, comments, criticism, sketches and stories, as the singer of the self looked at the world around him. John Ackerman is the author of "Dylan Thomas: His Life and Work", "Welsh Dylan", and editor of "Dylan Thomas: The Film Scripts" and "The Image and the Dark".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333607039
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/18/1994
Series:	Literary Companions Series
Edition description:	1991
Pages:	309
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Part 1: Dylan Thomas' life. Part 2 The poetry: early notebooks and manuscript verse
"18 Poems"
"Twenty-five Poems"
"The Map of Love"
"Deaths and Entrances"
"Collected Poems"
"Unfinished Poems". Part 3 The prose: "The Early Stories"
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog"
"Adventures in the Skin Trade" and "The Death of the King's Canary". Part 4 Film scripts - broadcasts, last stories and letters: film scripts - "The Doctor and the Devils", "Twelve Hours in the Streets"
broadcasts - "Quite Early One Morning"
last stories - "A Prospect of the Sea"
"The Collected Letters"
"Under Milk Wood".