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Cursed and blessed.(Dylan Thomas: A New Life)(Book Review)
Dylan Thomas: A New Life, by Andrew Lycett (Overlook, 434 pp., $35)
MODERN poets all too often live lives that, but for their poetry, differ little from those of common stewbums, wastrels, lunatics, or brutes. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), a writer of superb gifts, hit the pathological jackpot: He was an alcoholic who squandered his talent, hallucinated on occasion, and alternately beat and betrayed his wife. Andrew Lycett's new biography tends to scant the loveliness Thomas had in him--his poems and stories get only perfunctory mention--and to dwell relentlessly on the undeniable beastliness. Such is the inevitable fate of the poete maudit, the cursed poet, at a time ...
- Festivals for Dylan Thomas quite simply beyond words; Swansea celebrates with...
- Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) October 24, 2009 700+ words
...Robin Turner HARD-DRINKING poet Dylan Thomas continues to show that for him...Council has estimated that the "Dylan Thomas effect" brings in pounds 3.5m...this weekend, include the 12th Dylan Thomas Festival. This year is a particularly...
- Explore lyrical landscape of Dylan Thomas' Wales.(Travel)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Herbert, Rosemary September 28, 2003 700+ words
...Rosemary Herbert SWANSEA, Wales - Dylan Thomas might never have spoken his native...while also getting acquainted with Dylan Thomas country in and around this port...famous writer's haunts, the Dylan Thomas Centre is the place to start...
- Dylan Thomas just makes the last line of poets' poll; Fans disappointed by...
- Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) October 9, 2009 700+ words
Byline: Sally Williams DYLAN THOMAS has propped up a list of the UK...Professor Peter Stead, chairman of the Dylan Thomas Prize, said he was disappointed...poet's place in the survey. "Dylan Thomas is viewed by many as being second...
- From imitation to originality: or, how Dylan Thomas taught me to write...
- Magazine article from: Writing! Crum, Dana November 1, 2005 700+ words
...the first poets, I mimicked was Dylan Thomas, the most famous literary figure...Gentle Into That Good Night BY DYLAN THOMAS Do not go gentle into that good...the dying of the light. How did Dylan Thomas's poem about his father serve...
- A sobering view: Dylan Thomas. (hometown finally begins to honor poet)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) January 14, 1995 700+ words
WHEN the remarkable Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was finally admitted, warts and...personally gratifying to me that Dylan Thomas is being honoured today in Westminster...was president, and I urged that Dylan Thomas be included among the famous who...
- 'She was a great character. She inherited her father's wit and humour' Aeronwy...
- Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) July 29, 2009 700+ words
...Karen Price THE last strong link to Dylan Thomas has been lost following the death...with her work and launched the Dylan Thomas Trail in New York, which takes...literary award for young writers, the Dylan Thomas Prize. And she was set to publish...
- 'Aeronwy was a great character. She inherited her father's wit and humour'...
- Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) July 29, 2009 700+ words
...Karen Price THE last strong link to Dylan Thomas has been lost following the death...with her work and launched the Dylan Thomas Trail in New York, which takes...literary award for young writers, the Dylan Thomas Prize. And she was set to publish...
- A New Life of Dylan Thomas.(Dylan Thomas: A New Life)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Thomas, Tony June 1, 2004 700+ words
Dylan Thomas: A New Life. Andrew Lycett. Weidenfeld...the case for the prosecution against Dylan Thomas. The Welsh poet was, he said, not...morphine. Yet, as Mr Lycett's account of Dylan Thomas' life shows, far more people loved...
Source: HighBeam Research, Cursed and blessed.(Dylan Thomas: A New Life)(Book Review)