A Dylan Thomas Companion

Download A Dylan Thomas Companion full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online A Dylan Thomas Companion ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Discovering Dylan Thomas

Author : John Goodby
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783169648
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Discovering Dylan Thomas by : John Goodby

Download or read book Discovering Dylan Thomas written by John Goodby and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering Dylan Thomas is a companion to Dylan Thomas’s published and notebook poems. It includes hitherto-unseen material contained in the recently-discovered fifth notebook, alongside poems, drafts and critical material including summaries of the critical reception of individual poems. The introductory essay considers the task of editing and annotating Thomas, the reception of the Collected Poems and the state of the Dylan Thomas industry, and the nature of Thomas’s reading, ‘influences’, allusions and intertextuality. It is followed by supplementary poems, including juvenilia and the notebook poems ‘The Woman Speaks’, original versions of ‘Grief thief of time’ and ‘I fellowed sleep’, and ‘Jack of Christ’, all of which were omitted from the Collected Poems. These are followed by annotations beginning with a discussion of Thomas’s juvenilia, and the relationship between plagiarism and parody in his work; poem-by-poem entries offer glosses, new material from the fifth notebook, critical histories for each poem, and variants of poems such as ‘Holy Spring’ and ‘On a Wedding Anniversary’ (including a magnificent, previously unpublished first draft of ‘A Refusal to Mourn’). The closing appendices deal with text and publication details for the collections Thomas published in his lifetime, the provenance and contents of the fifth notebook, and errata for the hardback edition of the Collected Poems.

A Dylan Thomas Companion

Author : John Ackerman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349133736
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Dylan Thomas Companion by : John Ackerman

Download or read book A Dylan Thomas Companion written by John Ackerman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-01-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening with Thomas's life, the book offers vignettes of Swansea in the 1920s and 1930s, pre- and post-war Laugharne and rural West Wales, wartime London and New York City in the early 1950s, seen through the poet's eyes. Thomas's political views are focused on, as well as his social attitudes.

A Dylan Thomas Companion

Author : John Ackerman
Publisher : MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Dylan Thomas Companion by : John Ackerman

Download or read book A Dylan Thomas Companion written by John Ackerman and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1991 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan

Author : Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521886945
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan by : Kevin J. H. Dettmar

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan written by Kevin J. H. Dettmar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively set of new essays on Dylan's work as a writer and composer and on his place in American culture.

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry

Author : Neil Corcoran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113982810X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry by : Neil Corcoran

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry written by Neil Corcoran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.

The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811227952
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Poems of Dylan Thomas by : Dylan Thomas

Download or read book The Poems of Dylan Thomas written by Dylan Thomas and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete and current edition of Dylan Thomas' collected poetry in a beautiful gift edition celebrating the centenary of his birth The reputation of Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century has not waned in the fifty years since his death. A Welshman with a passion for the English language, Thomas’s singular poetic voice has been admired and imitated, but never matched. This exciting, newly edited annotated edition offers a more complete and representative collection of Dylan Thomas’s poetic works than any previous edition. Edited by leading Dylan Thomas scholar John Goodby from the University of Swansea, The Poems of Dylan Thomas contains all the poems that appeared in Collected Poems 1934-1952, edited by Dylan Thomas himself, as well as poems from the 1930-1934 notebooks and poems from letters, amatory verses, occasional poems, the verse film script for “Our Country,” and poems that appear in his “radio play for voices,” Under Milk Wood. Showing the broad range of Dylan Thomas’s oeuvre as never before, this new edition places Thomas in the twenty-first century, with an up-to-date introduction by Goodby whose notes and annotations take a pluralistic approach.

Dylan Thomas in America

Author : John Malcolm Brinnin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dylan Thomas in America by : John Malcolm Brinnin

Download or read book Dylan Thomas in America written by John Malcolm Brinnin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dylan Thomas

Author : Andrew Lycett
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780227485
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dylan Thomas by : Andrew Lycett

Download or read book Dylan Thomas written by Andrew Lycett and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the poet who was almost as notorious for his 'rock 'n' roll' lifestyle as his artistic work Dylan Thomas was a romantic and controversial figure; a poet who lived to excess and died young. An inventive genius with a gift for both lyrical phrases and impish humour, he also wrote for films and radio, and was renowned for his stage performances. He became the first literary star in the age of popular culture - a favourite of both T.S. Eliot and John Lennon. As his status as a poet and entertainer increased, so did his alcoholic binges and his sexual promiscuity, threatening to destroy his marriage to his fiery Irish wife Caitlin. As this extraordinary biography reveals, he was a man of many contradictions. But out of his tempestuous life, he produced some of the most dramatic and enduring poetry in the English language.

The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas

Author : Hilly Janes
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849547475
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas by : Hilly Janes

Download or read book The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas written by Hilly Janes and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dylan Thomas was one of the most extraordinary poetic talents of the twentieth century. Poems such as 'Do not go gentle into that good night' regularly top polls of the nation's favourites and his much-loved play Under Milk Wood has never been out of print. Thomas lived a life that was rarely without incident and died a death that has gone down in legend as the epitome of Bohemian dissoluteness. In The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas, journalist Hilly Janes explores that life and its extraordinary legacy through the eyes of her father, the artist Alfred Janes, who was a member of Thomas's inner circle and painted the poet at three key moments: in 1934, 1953 and, posthumously, 1964. Using these portraits as focal points, and drawing on a personal archive that includes drawings, diaries, letters and new interviews with omas's friends and descendants, The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas plots the poet's tempestuous journey from his birthplace in Swansea to his early death in a New York hospital in 1953. In this innovative and powerful narrative, Hilly Janes paints her own portrait: one that ventures beneath Thomas's reputation as a feckless, disloyal, boozy Welsh bard to reveal a much more complex character.

No Land to Light On

Author : Yara Zgheib
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982187433
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis No Land to Light On by : Yara Zgheib

Download or read book No Land to Light On written by Yara Zgheib and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi's father dies, in Amman, the night before the embassy interview that would finally reunite Hadi with his parents and deliver them from a country in crisis. Hadi flies back to the Middle East for the funeral, promising he'll be gone only a few days. On the day his flight is due to arrive in Boston, Sama decides to surprise him at the airport, eager to scoop him up and bring him back home. She waits, and waits. There are protests at Logan airport, and Hadi never shows up. What Sama doesn't yet know is that Hadi has been stopped at the border. That he's been taken away for questioning, detained in a windowless, timeless, nightmarish limbo. She does not know about the travel ban, that his legal status in the U.S., which yesterday seemed rock solid, is now in jeopardy - and with it, the chance that he'll ever step foot on U.S. soil again. Amid the protests, Sama goes into premature labor; their son, Naseem, is born, too soon, his father nowhere to be found, the future they could almost taste wrenched from their grasp in a matter of hours. Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they'd dreamed up together. But does that life exist anymore? Was it only ever an illusion? Achingly intimate yet poignantly universal, No Land to Light On is the story of a family caught on either side of a border, fighting for freedom and home, finding both in each other, and in the tenacious faith of creatures who take flight"--

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion

Author : Rosemary Gray
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509845992
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis London: An Illustrated Literary Companion by : Rosemary Gray

Download or read book London: An Illustrated Literary Companion written by Rosemary Gray and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists, including Gustave Doré, George Cruikshank, James McNeill Whistler and Hugh Thomson, and contains contemporary prints and photographs. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

The Walker's Literary Companion

Author : Roger Gilbert
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781891369193
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (691 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Walker's Literary Companion by : Roger Gilbert

Download or read book The Walker's Literary Companion written by Roger Gilbert and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walks and walking in the world's great literature--A shelf-mate to The Runner's Literary Companion.

Why Bob Dylan Matters

Author : Richard F. Thomas
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062939459
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Why Bob Dylan Matters by : Richard F. Thomas

Download or read book Why Bob Dylan Matters written by Richard F. Thomas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world’s most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn’t even deign to attend the medal ceremony? In Why Bob Dylan Matters, Harvard Professor Richard F. Thomas answers this question with magisterial erudition. A world expert on Classical poetry, Thomas was initially ridiculed by his colleagues for teaching a course on Bob Dylan alongside his traditional seminars on Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. Dylan’s Nobel Prize brought him vindication, and he immediately found himself thrust into the spotlight as a leading academic voice in all matters Dylanological. Today, through his wildly popular Dylan seminar—affectionately dubbed "Dylan 101"—Thomas is introducing a new generation of fans and scholars to the revered bard’s work. This witty, personal volume is a distillation of Thomas’s famous course, and makes a compelling case for moving Dylan out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and into the pantheon of Classical poets. Asking us to reflect on the question, "What makes a classic?", Thomas offers an eloquent argument for Dylan’s modern relevance, while interpreting and decoding Dylan’s lyrics for readers. The most original and compelling volume on Dylan in decades, Why Bob Dylan Matters will illuminate Dylan’s work for the Dylan neophyte and the seasoned fanatic alike. You’ll never think about Bob Dylan in the same way again.

The Death of Dylan Thomas

Author : James Nashold
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Death of Dylan Thomas by : James Nashold

Download or read book The Death of Dylan Thomas written by James Nashold and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dylan Thomas died in 1953 at the height of his fame, his death was widely believed to have been caused by his chronic alcoholism. This book explores recent discoveries which show that he was in fact a diabetic who was given the wrong treatment at his New York hospital - the treatment that this book claims led to his death. The book aims to establish what really happened, and to trace the life of his wife Caitlin following his death, when no one doubted she was equally to blame for his death, and she fled the country. The events of Caitlin's life after this are explored, from her settling in Italy, to her feuding with her children by Dylan and the trustees of his estate, her fourth child at the age of 49, and her refusal to marry again.

Collected Poems

Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (954 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Collected Poems by : Dylan Thomas

Download or read book Collected Poems written by Dylan Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by : Dylan Thomas

Download or read book Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog written by Dylan Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dylan Thomas

Author : Barbara Nathan Hardy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820322070
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dylan Thomas by : Barbara Nathan Hardy

Download or read book Dylan Thomas written by Barbara Nathan Hardy and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dylan Thomas's expressive, highly imaginative re-creation of forms and language intimately portrays his inner self and his time, earning him renown as one of the "great individualists of modern art." In this contemplative, focused study of poems, stories and other works by Thomas, including Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and Under Milk Wood, Barbara Hardy emphasizes his creative achievements and high intelligence, analyzing his regional identity; response to other writers, especially James Joyce; modernist style; subject matter; use of language; and themes of art and the natural world. Thomas, a Welsh writer, never a nationalist, put into his writing a subtle response to regional landscape, particular people and places, and social context, including the 1930s depression, rural poverty, and war. His poetry and prose are passionate, sensuous, and artistically self-aware. The poetry is especially congenial in its imaginative celebration of greenness--literal, metaphorical, and political. To adapt the words of Charles Lamb, the poet is in "love with this green earth." Hardy describes Thomas as a resourceful "language-changer" who, like Shakespeare, Dickens, Hopkins, and Joyce, transforms the English language. Through writing so uniquely inventive that it alters the reader's perception of language, Thomas left us with works that are as fresh and relevant to today's world as they were at their debut.