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Dylan Thomas

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Also known as Dylan Marlais Thomas

Welsh poet and writer (1914–1953)

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Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) was a male poet and spoken word artist. His work is associated with the poetry and epic music genres, as well as orchestral and soundtrack compositions. He is identified in various sources as both Welsh and British, while other records list his area as Norway.

Thomas’s literary output includes 308 works, with notable titles such as *Portrait of the artist as a young dog*, *Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum*, *New world writing*, *18 poems*, and *Der Doktor und die Teufel*. He has 1,423 references in other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1914
Died
1953
Works
308

Top works

  • Portrait of the artist as a young dog
  • Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
  • New world writing
  • 18 poems
  • Der Doktor und die Teufel

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Norway
Active from
1980-07-04
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Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
12,324
Total plays
86,530

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1) Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", the "play for voices", Under Milk Wood, and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death in New York. In his later life he acquired a reputation, which he encoura

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method

    · 2001 · cited 163,200x

  2. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

    · 2021 · cited 84,879x

  3. U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation

    · 2015 · cited 59,824x

  4. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

    · 2012 · cited 51,043x

  5. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

    · 2004 · cited 44,317x

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Quotes

  • “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.”
  • “Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides; And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads, The things of light File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones.”
  • “Dawn breaks behind the eyes; From poles of skull and toe the windy blood Slides like a sea; Nor fenced, nor staked, the gushers of the sky Spout to the rod Divining in a smile the oil of tears.”
  • “Light breaks on secret lots, On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain; When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.”
  • “The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death.”
  • “When all my five and country senses see, The fingers will forget green thumbs and mark How, through the halfmoon's vegetable eye, Husk of young stars and handfull zodiac, Love in the frost is pared and wintered by.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood. He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime, and remained so after his death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet".

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914, leaving school in 1932 to become a reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. A number of the some 200 poems he produced between 1931 and 1935 appeared in print while he was still a teenager, including one of his best known, And Death Shall Have No Dominion, the first he had published, in May 1933, in a national journal. While living in London, Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara; they married in 1937 and had three children: Llewelyn, Aeronwy, and Colm.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dylan Thomas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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