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	Essay 1: *"Writing with dreams and blood": Dylan Thomas, Marxism and 1930’s Swansea:* Victor Golightly, Trinity College, Carmarthen. Groundbreaking new research from Victor Golightly on Thomas’s ‘Socialist’ poetics formed from the political climate of Swansea in the 1930’s. Download the pdf (129kb) This paper currently appears in Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays, Volume 8 (2003), and is gratefully re-published here with kind permission of the editor. Essay 2: Fuse and Refuse: the Pastoral Logic of Dylan Thomas’s Poetry, Richard Chamberlain, Trinity College, Carmarthen. This essay reads Dylan Thomas’s poetry as informed by the curious, proto-deconstructive logic of the pastoral mode as William Empson theorised it in the 1930s. Download the pdf (56kb) Essay 3: Dylan Thomas and the French Symbolists, Nathalie Wourm, Birkbeck College: Nathalie Wourm’s paper explores the impact of certain French Symbolist aesthetics in translation on Dylan Thomas’s early poems. Download the pdf (90kb) This paper first appeared in Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays, Volume 5 (1999), and is gratefully re-published here with kind permission of the editor. Essay 4: Childhood and Subjectivity in the Work of Dylan Thomas, Harri Roberts, University of Glamorgan. This paper explores recent psychoanalytic perspectives on Thomas’s work and especially David Holbook’s attack of Thomas in 1962. Download the pdf (60kb)
		One of the leading journals in new researches on Welsh writing in English, and Dylan Thomas is the aptly named annual journal of critical essays welsh writing in english‚ edited by the indefatigable Dr.Tony Brown at University of Wales, Bangor. The latest volume 8, which could be well entitled "In bed with Thomas" with a rare photo of Thomas in Vancouver on the cover, features groundbreaking essays on Dylan Thomas from Victor N. Paananen, Victor Golightly (whose paper we publish below), James A. Davies, plus the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams‚ paper on Vernon Watkins.
	Essay 5: John Goodby & Chris Wigginton: ‘Shut in a Tower of Words’, Dylan Thomas’s Modernism This essay is an earlier version of the paper published in Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry,, eds. Alex Davis and Lee Jenkins, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000, pp. 89-112. We acknowledge permission from Cambridge University Press and John Goodby to re-publish this slightly earlier version of the essay here, with grateful thanks. Download the pdf (152kb) Notes on Contributors: Victor Golightly is completing his Doctorate on Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins at UW Swansea. He was editor of New Welsh Review 2000-01. Dr. Richard Chamberlain lectures in English at Trinity College, Carmarthen. His research interests are in Shakespeare and the Renaissance, twentieth century writing, and critical theory. Dr. Nathalie Wourm wrote her doctoral thesis on Dylan Thomas at Oxford University. She teaches French at Birkbeck College and specializes in Comparative Literature and Contemporary Poetry. Harri Roberts is a PhD student at the University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd. He is currently interested in tracing the connections between literary representations of the body and the development of Welsh identity during the twentieth century. John Goodby is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea. He is the author of Irish poetry since 1950: from stillness into history (Manchester University Press, 2000), co-editor of the Dylan Thomas New Casebook with Chris Wigginton (Palgrave, 2001) and editor of Irish Studies in Edward Arnold's Essentials series (2003). He is currently completing a study of Dylan Thomas for Seren Books. Links: Centre for Research into the English Language and Literature of Wales : http://www.swan.ac.uk/english/Subpages/home.htm Welsh Writing in English: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/english/periodic/welshwrit.html
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