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The Map of Love, published in 1939, generally continues the style and themes of the early poetry and it might wittily be said, as Beckett did of Proust, the poet still resists the distortions of intelligibility and reason! The book includes seven early stories which, as we shall see, are closely linked to the early poetry both in their themes, language and the worlds they create. Nevertheless there is the beginning of that deepening and extension of poetic sympathy and personal vision that characterises Thomas’s later work, as in the poem on the birth of the poet’s son Llewelyn ‘If my head hurt a hair’s foot’, and particularly ‘After the funeral’.
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Notes
John Donne, Deaths Duell, Sermons of John Donne, vol. x, ed. E. M. Simpson and G. R. Potter (Berkeley, Calif. 1961) pp. 232–3.
Dylan Thomas, ‘On Reading One’s Own Poems’, Quite Early One Morning (London, 1954) p. 137.
Dylan Thomas, Poet in the Making: The Notebooks of Dylan Thomas, ed. R. Maud (London, 1968) p. 168.
Dylan Thomas, The Collected Letters, ed. Paul Ferris (London, 1985) pp. 12–13.
Dylan Thomas, ‘The Peaches’, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (London, 1940) pp. 23–4.
Dylan Thomas, ‘In Country Sleep’, Collected Poems: 1934–53 (London, 1988) p: 140.
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Ackerman, J. (1991). The Map of Love. In: A Dylan Thomas Companion. Macmillan Literary Companions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13373-4_5
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