Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

Stories

Dylan Thomas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

186 Seiten

1968
New Directions Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-0-8112-0207-7 (ISBN)

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The "Young Dog" of the title is of course Thomas himself, and this volume of autobiographical stories by the great modern poet, who died at 39 while on his third lecture tour in the United States, shows his waggish humor at its best, his exuberance and verbal magic in spectacular display. It also shows him a spinner of tales and a creator of memorable characters. There is the grandfather who marches off in his best clothes to be buried in the next town, the sardonic "senior reporter" on a provincial newspaper, servant girls who know how to deal triumphantly with a fast-talking dandy, a twenty-year-old farmer preaching wildly to boys in a deserted barn, a group of respectable worthies who play at literature behind closed blinds, and always the observant and unfazed young Thomas.

Dylan Thomas, born in Swansea in 1914, is perhaps Wales’ best-known writer, widely considered to be one of the major poets of the 20th century: many of his greatest poems, such as “Fern Hill” and ”’Do not go gentle into that good night”’ are beloved and widely studied. As well as poetry, Dylan Thomas wrote numerous short stories and scripts for film and radio–none more popular than his radio play Under Milk Wood. He led a fascinating and tempestuous life, which ended all too soon in 1953 when he collapsed and died in New York City shortly after his 39th birthday.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.1968
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	132 x 206 mm
Gewicht	130 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
ISBN-10	0-8112-0207-0 / 0811202070
ISBN-13	978-0-8112-0207-7 / 9780811202077
Zustand	Neuware