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Dylan Thomas

Also known as Dylan Marlais Thomas

Welsh poet and writer (1914–1953)

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Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer who lived from 1914 to 1953 and became one of the most celebrated literary figures of the 20th century. His vivid, musical use of language and emotionally powerful works made him an influential voice in modern literature, though details about his specific achievements and lasting impact would require further exploration.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1914
Died: 1953
Works: 308

Top works

Portrait of the artist as a young dog
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
New world writing
18 poems
Der Doktor und die Teufel

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Norway
Active from: 1980-07-04

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Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 12,324
Total plays: 86,530

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.”
“Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides; And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads, The things of light File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones.”
“Dawn breaks behind the eyes; From poles of skull and toe the windy blood Slides like a sea; Nor fenced, nor staked, the gushers of the sky Spout to the rod Divining in a smile the oil of tears.”
“Light breaks on secret lots, On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain; When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.”
“The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death.”
“When all my five and country senses see, The fingers will forget green thumbs and mark How, through the halfmoon's vegetable eye, Husk of young stars and handfull zodiac, Love in the frost is pared and wintered by.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.dylanthomas.com
Image: Dylan Thomas icon Blashford 1937.jpg

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P12749: David Adeang
Commons category: Dylan Thomas
date of birth: 1914-10-27
date of death: 1953-11-09
birth name: Dylan Marlais Thomas
last words: I've had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record!
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Article

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood. He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime, and remained so after his death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet".

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914, leaving school in 1932 to become a reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. A number of the some 200 poems he produced between 1931 and 1935 appeared in print while he was still a teenager, including one of his best known, And Death Shall Have No Dominion, the first he had published, in May 1933, in a national journal. While living in London, Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara; they married in 1937 and had three children: Llewelyn, Aeronwy, and Colm.