Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas, a Welsh poet writing in English, was born in 1914 in Swansea, in a family where the father, an English teacher, spoke Welsh without passing it on to his children. He left school at sixteen for a local newspaper and published his first collection at twenty. After the war he wrote and read more than a hundred radio broadcasts, and his voice became almost as famous as his texts. He gave four reading tours in the United States and died in New York in 1953, at the age of thirty-nine.

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• PoetryCollected Poems 1934–1952Dylan Thomas · 1952Literature