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	A comprehensive guide to Thomas's key works, important biographical and critical writing about Thomas and audio recordings is provided as a downloadable Acrobat pdf document. What follows is a limited background to some of the important works of Dylan Thomas. Key Works To provide in-depth annotations of Thomas’s works is in the hands of scholars and is a lifetime’s project. Readers are advised to seek one such lifetime’s project Professor Ralph Maud new book Where Have The Old Words Got Me?: explications of Dylan Thomas’s Collected Poems, Cardiff: UWP, 2003. Students wishing to find out more should visit the Bibliography page and the sample essays provided in the Education area of this website. Stories and poems, and Under Milk Wood, can be found in The Dylan Thomas Omnibus. Poetry 1934: Eighteen Poems [Key poems: ‘The force that through the green fuse’, ‘I see the boys of summer’, ‘When, like a running grave’, ‘If I were tickled by the rub of love’, ‘Light breaks were no sun shines’, ‘in the beginning’] 1936: Twenty-Five Poems [Key poems: ‘And death shall have no dominion’, ‘The hand that signed the paper’, ‘A grief ago’, ‘I, in my intricate image’, ‘Today, this insect’] 1939: The Map of Love
		Dylan Thomas signing books in New York 1953 ©G.D. Hackett/Jeff Towns/Dylan Bookstore Collection
	*1939: The World I Breathe* (USA) [Key poems: ‘After the funeral’, ‘Because the pleasure bird whistles’, ‘How shall my animal’, ‘If my head hurt a hare’s foot’, ‘I make this in a warring absence’. Prose included: ‘The Tree’, ‘The Enemies’, ‘The Dress’, ‘The Visitor’, ‘The Orchards’, ‘The Mouse and the Woman’, The Map of Love’.] 1943: New Poems (USA) 1946: Deaths and Entrances** [Key poems: ‘The Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London’, ‘Poem in October’, ‘Love in the Asylum’, ‘The hunchback in the park’, ‘Deaths and Entrances’, ‘On the marriage of a virgin’, ‘In my craft or sullen art’, ‘Ceremony after a fire raid’, Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man Aged a Hundred’, ‘Ballad of the Long-legged Bait’, ‘Fern Hill’] 1952: In Country Sleep [Key poems: ‘Over Sir John’s Hill’, ‘Poem on His Birthday’, ‘Lament’, ‘In the White Giant’s Thigh’, ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’] 1952: Collected Poems 1934–52 [Key poems: ‘Prologue’.] 1954: Collected Poems 1934-53 [Key Poems: ‘In Country Heaven’, ‘Elegy’.] Short Stories 1940 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog [Stories included: ‘The Peaches’, ‘A Visit to Grandpa’s’, ‘Patricia, Edith and Arnold’, ‘The Fight’, ‘Extraordinary Little Cough’, ‘Just Like Little Dogs’, ‘Where Tawe Flows’, ‘Who Do You Wish Was With Us’, ‘Old Garbo’, ‘One Warm Saturday’ ] 1955 A Prospect of the Sea [Stories included: ‘After the Fair’, ‘The Tree’, ‘The Enemies’, ‘The Dress’, ‘The Visitor’, ‘The Orchards’, ‘The Lemon’, ‘The Mouse and the Woman’, ‘A Prospect of the Sea’, ‘The Map of Love’, ‘In the Direction of the Beginning’, ‘A Story’, ‘The Followers’] 1955 Adventures in the Skin Trade [Semi-autobiographical novel: ‘A Fine Beginning’, ‘Plenty of Furniture’, ‘Four Lost Souls’ ] Key Broadcasts 1944 ‘Quite Early One Morning’ 1946 ‘Holiday Memory’ 1947 ‘Return Journey’ 1950 ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ 1953 ‘A Story’ written for BBC television; (later known as ‘The Outing’) 1953 ‘Under Milk Wood’ Filmscripts 1953 The Doctor and The Devils download pdf (95kb)
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