Widely considered one of the greatest
20th century poets writing in English, Dylan Thomas was born in
1914 in the coastal town of Swansea, Wales. His vivid and often
fantastic imagery was a
rejection of the
trends
in 20th Century verse: while his contemporaries gradually altered
their writing to political and social
verse, Thomas
gave
himself over to his
passionately felt emotions, and his writing is often both
intensely personal and fiercely lyrical. He
collapsed in 1953 at the White Horse Tavern after drinking
heavily
while in New York City on a promotional tour and later died at St
Vincent's hospital. The poem below is read by the poet himself. |
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