Abstract
‘One: I am a Welshman; two: I am a drunkard; three: I am a lover of the human race, especially of women.’1 This concise, humorous, and not untruthful account of himself was given by Dylan Thomas to an audience in Rome in 1947. It shows that he was aware of the extent to which his temperament and his imagination were the products of his Welsh environment.
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Notes
Dylan Thomas: quoted by Geoffrey Moore in ‘Dylan Thomas’, Kenyon Review, vol. xvii (Spring 1955), p. 261.
Gwyn Jones: ‘Welsh Dylan’, Adelphi, vol. 30, no. 2 (February 1954), p. 115.
Karl Shapiro: ‘Dylan Thomas’, Poetry, vol. 87, no. 2 (November 1955), p. 105.
Vernon Watkins: comment on a review of J. M. Brinnin: Dylan Thomas in America in Encounter, vol. VI, no. 6 (June 1956), p. 78.
Geoffrey Moore: ‘Dylan Thomas’, Kenyon Review, vol. xvii (Spring 1955), pp. 264–5.
A. G. Prys-Jones: ‘Death Shall Have No Dominion’, Dock Leaves (Dylan Thomas Memorial Number), vol. 5, no. 13 (Spring 1954), p. 27.
Gwyn Jones: ‘Welsh Dylan’, Adelphi, vol. 30, no. 2 (Spring 1954), p. 115.
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Ackerman, J. (1996). The Welsh Background. In: Dylan Thomas. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24366-2_1
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