Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life

Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an accurate and unsensationalized account of the poet's life in the context of British and American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century, along with a critical reading of a selection of characteristic works in the many different genres in which Dylan Thomas worked, from the dense and rhetorically powerful lyrics which established his reputation through his stories and radio and film scripts to the triumphant 'play for voices', Under Milk Wood. This study is designed to close what has been called 'the yawning gap' between Thomas's popular and critical reputations, and is a major contribution to the revival and revision of the poet's work and reputation.

Author: W. Christie
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/26/2014
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781137322562
ISBN10: 113732256X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Poetry

About the Author
William Christie is Professor of English Literature and Pro-Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and President of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA). He is also Vice President of the Dylan Thomas Society of Australia. His many publications include Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life (2006), awarded the NSW Premier's Biennial Prize for Literary Scholarship in 2008.