Dylan Thomas: the Collected Letters Volume 2 1939-1953
Dylan Thomas: the Collected Letters Volume 2 1939-1953 by Dylan Thomas, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2017, spans 624 pages and is presented in English. This edition captures the vibrant and tumultuous life of the poet through his correspondence, beginning from his schooldays and concluding shortly before his death at 39. The letters offer insights into his experiences, relationships, and literary critiques, providing a unique perspective that transcends traditional biography.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of Thomas’s thoughts on his contemporaries, including notable figures such as T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden. The collection reveals the poet’s passionate engagement with life, literature, and his own struggles, all conveyed with a distinctive lyricism. This volume not only chronicles his personal journey but also reflects the broader literary landscape of his time, making it a significant addition to the study of literary figures and their correspondence.
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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.
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