During World War II (1939-1945) Thomas wrote scripts for documentary motion pictures.Īfter the war Thomas was a literary commentator for BBC radio. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940) is a group of autobiographical sketches, and Adventures in the Skin Trade (published posthumously, 1954) contains an unfinished novel and other prose pieces. Thomas's other works include Twenty-five Poems (1936) and The Map of Love (1939), containing both poetry and prose. This introspective tendency is less apparent in Deaths and Entrances (1946) and In Country Sleep (1951), which are generally regarded as containing his finest writing. But the freshness and vitality of Thomas's language draw the reader into the poems and reveal the universality of the experiences with which they are concerned. Thematically, these poems and virtually all that followed seem obscure because they contain elements of surrealism and personal fantasy. At this early age, he revealed unusual power in the use of poetic diction and imagery the volume won him immediate critical acclaim. After grammar school he moved to London where, in 1934, his first book of poetry, Eighteen Poems, was published. Dylan Thomas wrote 'I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression'.Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, on October 27, 1914.
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