Dylan Thomas
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works and ideas of this celebrated Welsh poet, from his teenage success to his tours of America via Under Milk Wood.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953). He wrote some of his best poems before he was twenty in the first half of his short, remarkable life, and was prolific in the second half too with poems such as those set in London under the Blitz and reworkings of his childhood in Swansea, and his famous radio play Under Milk Wood (performed after his death). He was read widely and widely heard: with his reading tours in America and recordings of his works that sold in their hundreds of thousands after his death, he is credited with reviving the act of poetry as performance in the 20th century.
With
Nerys Williams
Associate Professor of Poetry and Poetics at University College Dublin
John Goodby
Professor of Arts and Culture at Sheffield Hallam University
And
Leo Mellor
The Roma Gill Fellow in English at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
Producer: Simon Tillotson
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
John Goodby at Sheffield Hallam University
Nerys Williams at University College Dublin
Leo Mellor at the University of Cambridge
READING LIST
Edward Allen (ed.), Reading Dylan Thomas (Edinburgh University Press, 2019)
Ned Allen (ed.), Reading Dylan Thomas (Edinburgh University Press, 2019)
Rhian Barfoot and Kieron Smith (eds.), New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas: “A writer of words, and nothing else”? (University of Wales Press, 2020)
Douglas Cleverdon, The Growth of Under Milk Wood (New Directions, 1969)
James A. Davies, Dylan Thomas's Swansea, Gower and Laugharne (University of Wales Press, 2014)
Walford Davies, Dylan Thomas: Writers of Wales (University of Wales Press, 2014)
Walford Davies, Dylan Thomas: Open Guides to Literature (Open University Press, 1986)
Colin Edwards (ed. David N. Thomas), Dylan Remembered, Volume 1: 1914–1934 (Seren Press, 2003)
Colin Edwards (ed. David N. Thomas), Dylan Remembered, Volume 2: 1935–1953 (Seren Press, 2004)
John Goodby, The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: Under the Spelling Wall (Liverpool University Press, 2013)
John Goodby and Adrian Osbourne (eds.), The Fifth Notebook of Dylan Thomas (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Hilly Janes, The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas (Parthian, 2014)
James Keery (ed.), Apocalypse: An Anthology (Carcanet, 2020)
Andrew Lycett, Dylan Thomas: A New Life (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2003)
Leo Mellor, Reading the Ruins: Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Michel Remy, Surrealism in Britain (Routledge, 1999)
Andrew Sinclair, War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties (Faber, 2009)
Dylan Thomas (ed. Ralph Maud), The Broadcasts (J. M. Dent, 1991)
Dylan Thomas (ed. John Goodby), The Collected Poems (Orion, 2016)
Dylan Thomas (ed. Paul Ferris), The Collected Letters (J. M. Dent, 2000)
Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood (Orion, 2014)
RELATED LINKS
Dylan Thomas - Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
Dylan Thomas Day - BBC
Canolfan Dylan Thomas Centre
Discover Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas News
Dylan Thomas - Wikipedia
Broadcasts
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Thu 16 Jun 2022 09:00BBC Radio 4
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Thu 16 Jun 2022 21:30BBC Radio 4
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