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245 10 a| Dylan Thomas :b| a literary life /c| William Christie, Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney, Australia.;

264 1 a| Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;a| New York :b| Palgrave Macmillan,c| 2014.;

300 a| xv, 228 pages ;c| 23 cm.;

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520 a| "Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an accurate and unsensationalized account of the poet's life in the context of British and American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century, along with a critical reading of a selection of characteristic works in the many different genres in which Dylan Thomas worked, from the dense and rhetorically powerful lyrics which established his reputation through his stories and radio and film scripts to the triumphant 'play for voices', Under Milk Wood. This study is designed to close what has been called 'the yawning gap' between Thomas's popular and critical reputations, and is a major contribution to the revival and revision of the poet's work and reputation"--c| Provided by publisher.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 8 a| Machine generated contents note: -- AcknowledgementsPreface1. Uplands: Growing up in Cwmdonkin Drive2. Truant Years: Going (and not Going) to School3. 'A Bit of a shower-off': Performing in Swansea4. One-Track Mind: The Notebooks5. The Road out of Wales: Fame and Fitrovia6. 'From Love's First Fever': Love and War, Guile and Beer7. 'A crucial point in his career': Reinventing Dylan Thomas8. 'Radio's a building in the air': Lord Cut-Glass, Poet of the Airwaves9. 'My seashaken house on a breakneck of rocks': The Road to Laugharne10. 'O my America, my newfoundland': The Poet on Tour11. The Road to Milk WoodEpilogueAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex.;

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Dylan Thomas : a literary life / William Christie, Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney, Australia.

Author/creator	Christie, William, 1952- author.
Format	Book
Publication	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description	xv, 228 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953. Poets, Welsh--20th century. --Biography.

Series	Literary lives Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) ^A536366
Contents	Machine generated contents note: -- AcknowledgementsPreface1. Uplands: Growing up in Cwmdonkin Drive2. Truant Years: Going (and not Going) to School3. 'A Bit of a shower-off': Performing in Swansea4. One-Track Mind: The Notebooks5. The Road out of Wales: Fame and Fitrovia6. 'From Love's First Fever': Love and War, Guile and Beer7. 'A crucial point in his career': Reinventing Dylan Thomas8. 'Radio's a building in the air': Lord Cut-Glass, Poet of the Airwaves9. 'My seashaken house on a breakneck of rocks': The Road to Laugharne10. 'O my America, my newfoundland': The Poet on Tour11. The Road to Milk WoodEpilogueAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex.
Abstract	"Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an accurate and unsensationalized account of the poet's life in the context of British and American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century, along with a critical reading of a selection of characteristic works in the many different genres in which Dylan Thomas worked, from the dense and rhetorically powerful lyrics which established his reputation through his stories and radio and film scripts to the triumphant 'play for voices', Under Milk Wood. This study is designed to close what has been called 'the yawning gap' between Thomas's popular and critical reputations, and is a major contribution to the revival and revision of the poet's work and reputation"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2014026504
ISBN	9781137322562 hardback
ISBN	113732256X hardback

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