“A beautiful addition to any library. One of the 20th century’s greatest poets.”
- Brazos Bookstore
“Thomas meant much to me and my generation, he is still singing in his chains like the sea―a force driving the flowers.”
- Seamus Heaney
“As I wrote fifty years ago, there is no one like Dylan Thomas in poetry today.”
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

This varied, well-chosen selection brings onto one CD set the best of Dylan Thomas. Cd's 1 and 2: Historial Recordings-the legendary recording of Under Milk Wood, with Richard Burton and and cast. Also, two radio productions he wrote before that great classic, and poems and stories read by Thomas. Cd's 3 and 4: New Recordings-selected poems including Fern Hill, Do Not Go Gentle, Poem in October. Also, selected stories including The Outing, Peaches, Visit to Grandpa, The Fight and Death Shall Have No Dominion.

Strenously crafted and powerfully lyrical, Dylan Thomas' poetry has bewitched generations of readers. Admired and loved for their ingenuity and potency, his poems celebrate both inner and outer landscapes in the face of mortality and decay, human weakness and shortcomings. Thomas is regarded by many to be the greatest - if controversial - Welsh poet of the twentieth century.

The most complete edition of the works of one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, including an audio CD containing vintage recordings of Thomas reading eight of his poems.
This new, revised edition of The Poems of Dylan Thomas is based on the collection edited by Thomas's life-long friend and fellow poet, Daniel Jones, first published by New Directions in 1971. Jones started with the ninety poems Thomas selected for his Collected Poems in 1952 (at a time when the poet expected that many years of work still lay ahead of him) and, after exhaustive research and consideration, added one hundred previously finished, though uncollected, poems (including twenty-six juvenile works), and two unfinished poems, and arranged them all in chronological order of composition, creating the most complete edition of Thomas's poems ever published. This revised edition contains all the original material and incorporates textual corrections. Also included are an introduction and concise notes by Daniel Jones, a brief chronology of the poet's life, and a compact disc containing vintage recordings of Thomas reading eight of his poems in his famous "Welsh-singing" style, making this edition of The Poems of Dylan Thomas a truly remarkable collection.

Mit elf, so wird überliefert, soll der Mann, nach dem sich später Bob Dylan benannte, seine ersten Gedichte geschrieben haben. Mit fünfundzwanzig war er ein ebenso berühmter wie umstrittener Autor. Und mit 39 Jahren war er tot. Sein Werk gehört inzwischen zum festen Bestand der modernen Poesie dieser Welt. Der »Rimbaud von Cwmdonkin Drive«, wie er sich selbst in die Ahnenreihe der rebellischen Dichter einfügte, sah sich stets als gefährdet und gefährdete sich selbst fortwährend durch exzessiven Alkoholgenuß. Weltschmerz und Weltmüdigkeit, Wortverliebtheit und Wortstrenge, Sprachwitz und Sprachzauber - während seines kurzen Lebens hat er alle Register des Ausdrucks gezogen, um die Mythologie seines Selbst, seiner Familie sowie der Landschaft, deren Märchen und Mythen er sich als Hintergrund und Kontext anverwandelte, zur Sprache zu bringen. Dieser Band ›Windabgeworfenes Licht‹ (ein Zitat aus seinem berühmten Gedicht ›Fern Hill‹) bie-tet die umfassendste Sammlung von Dylan Thomas' Gedichten, die bislang auf Deutsch erschienen ist. Zwölf Übersetzer haben sich daran beteiligt. Die prominentesten: Erich Fried und Curt Meyer-Clason.

Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no biography can.The letters begin in the poet's schooldays and end just before his death in New York at the age of 39. In between, he loved, wrote, drank, begged and borrowed his way through a flamboyant life. He was an enthusiastic critic of other writers' work and the letters are full of his thoughts on the work of his contemporaries, from T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden to Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis.A lifetime of letters tell a remarkable story, each taking the reader a little further along the path of the poet's self-destruction, but written with such verve and lyricism that somehow the reader's sympathies never quite abandon him.

<em>The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas</em> contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking. <br /><br />Since its initial publication in 1953, this book has become the definitive edition of the poet’s work. Thomas wrote “<i>Prologue</i>” addressed to “my readers, the strangers” — an introduction in verse that was the last poem he would ever write. Also included are classics such as “<i>And Death Shall Have No Dominion</i>,” “<i>Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night</i>,” and “<i>Fern Hill</i>” that have influenced generations of artists from Bob Dylan (who changed his last name from Zimmerman in honor of the poet), to John Lennon (The Beatles included Thomas’ portrait on the cover of <em>Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band</em>); this collection even appears in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s <em>The Road</em> when it is retrieved from the rubble of a bookshelf.

In 1951, two years before his death, Dylan Thomas wrote of his plan to complete a radio play, 'an impression for voices, an entertainment out of the darkness, of the town I live in, and to write it simply and warmly and comically with lots of movement and varieties of moods, so that, at many levels...you come to know the town as an inhabitant of it'. The work was UNDER MILK WOOD - an orchestration of voices, sights and sounds that conjure up the dreams and waking hours of an imagined Welsh seaside village within the cycle of one day. Includes an introduction, notes, selected criticism and chronology of Thomas's life and times.

Like Shakespeare and Joyce before him, Dylan Thomas expanded our sense of what the English language can do.
He was the creator of one of the most distinctive and exciting of literary styles - sensuous, playful, rhythmically forceful yet subtly musical, and full of memorable lines. 'Do not go gentle into that good night', 'Fern Hill' and other poems have become anthology favourites; his 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood a modern classic.
In life, Thomas's exuberant style and meteor-like passing turned him into a cultural icon; the favourite author of The Beatles and Richard Burton, he gave Bob Dylan his name and continues to inspire artists from Peter Blake to Patti Smith.
This new edition of his poems, edited and annotated by Dylan Thomas expert John Goodby, commemorates the centenary of Thomas's birth. With recently discovered material and accessible critique, it looks at his body of work in a fresh light and takes us to the beating heart of Thomas's poetry.

This resource offers a print version of the poem to use for the analysis and exploration of Dylan Thomas's 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night'.