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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas
Personal information
Birth date27 October 1914
Place of birthUplands, Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales
Date of death9 November 1953(age 39)
OccupationPoet and writer
Influenced byArthur Rimbaud, D. H. Lawrence, Welsh Mythology, James Joyce, John Donne
InfluencedJohn Lennon, Bob Dylan
Literary movementModernism, Romanticism
ChildrenLlewellyn Edouard Thomas (1939 � 2000)
Aeronwy Bryn Thomas (1943 � 2009)
Colm Garan Hart Thomas (b. 1949)

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Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 � 9 November 1953) was a Welsh-born poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself. His public readings, particularly in America, won him great acclaim; his sonorous voice with a subtle Welsh lilt became almost as famous as his works. His best-known works include the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood and the celebrated villanelle for his dying father, "Do not go gentle into that good night". Appreciative critics have also noted the craftsmanship and compression of poems such as "In my Craft or Sullen Art" and the rhapsodic lyricism of "Fern Hill'".

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Night Driving by Golf Ad. Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas is narrated by Richard Burton. I found out more at www.night-driving.com says it was shot by Noam Murro in LA.
1.52 min. | 4.87 user rating
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3.43 min. | 4.47 user rating
Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1.57 min. | 4.89 user rating
Thornton Mellon recites Thomas' poem Do not go gentle into that good night. From the movie Back to School. Comedy Classic
1.80 min. | 4.85 user rating
This is my New video about Dylan Thomas and Cole Mitchel Sprouse. Who´s Better ??? Dylan?!? or Cole ?!? I love both but Cole i little more =) now Who´s your Faved Twin ?
4.10 min. | 4.79 user rating
In My Craft or Sullen Art recited by Dylan Thomas
1.22 min. | 4.77 user rating
John Maybury's powerful love story The Edge Of Love starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys. Out now on DVD. A beautifully drawn love story, the film revolves around two feisty, free-spirited women, Caitlin Thomas and Vera Killick, Vera's husband William Killick, and the brilliant, charismatic poet Dylan Thomas who loves both women. Broken promises, passion, betrayal, the shadow of war and the constant threat of imminent death provides a vivid setting for THE EDGE OF LOVE. By no means a biopic in the traditional vein, the story explores the collision of the bohemian underworld of war-torn London, and the intimate complexities of two young couples whose lives and loves become dangerously intertwined.
2.02 min. | 4.81 user rating
Live, 1987; with the Helmonds Concertkoor and the Metropole Orkest; from `Words For The Dying-The Falkland Suite´; poem by Dylan Thomas, produced by Brian Eno
5.85 min. | 4.82 user rating
DYLAN THOMAS - UNDER MILK WOOD. 1954. RICHARD BURTON - "FIRST VOICE.'
9.27 min. | 4.90 user rating
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. Comment, rate, subscribe please! ------ To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now. Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen and the tidy wives. Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glow-worms down the aisles of the organplaying wood. The boys are dreaming wicked or of the bucking ranches of the night and the jollyrodgered sea. And the anthracite statues of the horses sleep in the fields, and the cows in the byres, and the dogs in the wetnosed yards; and the cats nap in the slant corners or lope sly, streaking and needling, on the one cloud of the roofs. You can hear the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing. Only your eyes are unclosed, to see the black and folded town <b>...</b>
4.10 min. | 4.35 user rating

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Sacramento Bee--The Welsh poet -Dylan Thomas- painted an irresistibly vivid picture of a child's Christmas in a short story - so irresistible to composer ... - Date : Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:56:04 GMT+00:00
Dylan Thomas' former home on market - The Move Channel Tweet this news
The Move Channel--This late Georgian property was formerly the home of -Dylan Thomas- and his wife Caitlin... Seaview is a wonderful old property dating back to 1845 in the ... - Date : Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:03:40 GMT+00:00
Georgian former home of Dylan Thomas - Country Life Tweet this news
Country Life---Dylan Thomas- moved into the property in 1930 with his then pregnant wide Caitlin and they lived there until 1940 - the years Caitlin later said were the ... - Date : Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:46:13 GMT+00:00
US poet wins Dylan Thomas prize - BBC News Tweet this news
BBC News--Elyse Fenton has been awarded the University of Wales -Dylan Thomas- Prize, set up to honour the Welsh poet and encourage writing among the young. ... - Date : Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:51:41 GMT+00:00
REVIEW: Dylan Thomas takes center stage at Gamm - Attleboro Sun Chronicle Tweet this news
Attleboro Sun Chronicle--Gamm Artistic Director Tony Estrella, after spending a summer immersed in the works of -Dylan Thomas-, created a new adaptation of this classic holiday story, ... - Date : Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:11:51 GMT+00:00
(9/2010) FirstLook Review: My Father's Places By Aeronwy Thomas-Ellis - Basil & Spice Tweet this news
Basil & Spice--Many people have written about their experiences with Welsh poet -Dylan Thomas- (1914-1953) but an intimate look at his family life had to await a memoir by ... - Date : Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:57:08 GMT+00:00
Khedira Challenges Ballack For National Team Starting Place - Bundesliga Talk Tweet this news
Bundesliga Talk--Sami Khedira has spoken about Joachim Loew's decision to name him and Schweinsteiger as Germany's ... - Date : Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:24:17 GMT+00:00
Two Canadians nominated for the Dylan Thomas Prize for Young Writers - National Post Tweet this news
National Post--Two Canadians have been longlisted for the 2010 -Dylan Thomas- Prize, one of the world's most prestigious awards for young writers. ... - Date : Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:15:12 GMT+00:00
Unfinished Dylan Thomas poem 'saved for Wales' - BBC News Tweet this news
BBC News---Dylan Thomas's- last unfinished poem has been given a permanent home at the National Library of Wales after being bought from a collector. ... - Date : Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:44:09 GMT+00:00
Pre-Season Preview: Borussia Dortmund - Bundesliga Talk Tweet this news
Bundesliga Talk--Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp achieved his greatest success last season when he lifted the club to an ... - Date : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:12:40 GMT+00:00



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