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The oval Welshman.(Book Review)
Andrew Lycett Dylan Thomas. Overlook Press, 416 pages, $35
"We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;/ But thereof come in the end despondency and madness." Wordsworth was writing about Thomas Chatterton, "the marvellous boy," but these memorable lines have done much to fix a popular and romanticized conception of the poet as someone called to purposes too high to be fulfilled, and therefore destined to burn out in disaster. In the twentieth century, Dylan Thomas was another marvellous boy who seems to prove that the poet's vocation really is stricken. Anyone thinking about him today can only be astonished and saddened by the drinking, profligacy, and philandering ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, The oval Welshman.(Book Review)