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Reading Ralph Maud’s Poet In The Making (1968) and his Dylan Thomas/The Notebook Poems (1989) has confirmed my sense of Thomas’s major achievement. I use the term major advisedly, having in mind the attacks, or the more subtly depreciating commentary, upon his worth as a poet (and a man) by poets still living whose work (in this reader’s opinion) have little chance of being within sight of Thomas’s achievement.
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References
Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems 1934–1952 (London, Dent, 1952).
Ralph N. Maud (ed.), Poet in the Making (London, Dent, 1968).
Ralph N. Maud (ed.), The Notebook Poems 1930–1934 (London, Dent, 1989).
Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices (London, Dent, 1955 (1954)).
William Empson, Argufying: Essays on Literature and Culture, edited by John Haffenden (Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1987).
Walford Davies, Dylan Thomas (Cardiff, University of Wales Press and The Welsh Arts Council, 1990).
Constantine FitzGibbon, The Life of Dylan Thomas (London, Dent, 1975 (1965)).
Winifred Nowottny, The Language Poets Use (London, University of London, The Athlone Press, 1968), pp. 187–203.
Seamus Heaney, ‘Dylan the Durable? on Dylan Thomas’, in The Redress of Poetry (London, Faber and Faber, 1995), pp. 124–45.
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Silkin, J. (1997). Dylan Thomas. In: The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25351-7_5
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