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BRIEF CHRONOLOGY
17 Oct 1914 Dylan Marlais Thomas
born in Swansea
Sept 1925 Enters Swansea Grammar
School, where his father was Senior English Master
27 Apr 1930 Starts the first of the
'Notebooks' into which he copied his early poems. (The Notebooks
continued until April 1934)
Aug 1931 Leaves school. Employed
as Reporter on the South Wales Daily Post (until Dec 1932)
Mar 1933 First poem published in
London ('And death shall have no dominion' in the New English Weekly)
Aug 1933 First visit to London
Sept 1933 First poem published in
'Poet's Corner' of the Sunday Referee ("That Sanity be Kept").
Correspondence with
Pamela Hansford Johnson begins
22 Apr 1934 Wins Book Prize of the
'Poet's Comer' - i.e. the Sunday Referee's sponsorship of his first
collection of poems
Feb-Nov 1934 Several visits to London
10 Nov 1934 Moves to London
18 Dec 1934 18 Poems published
Apr 1936 Meets Caitlin Macnamara
10 Sept 1936 Twenty-five Poems published
11 Apr 1937 First radio broadcast
('Life and the Modern Poet')
11 July 1937 Marries Caitlin Macnamara
May 1938 First moved to live in Laugharne,
Carmarthenshire
30 Jan 1939 First son (Llewelyn)
born, in Hampshire
24 Aug 1939 The Map of Love (poems
and stories) published
20 Dec 1939 The World I Breathe
(a selection of his poetry and prose) - first publication in
America
4 Apr 1940 Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Dog (short stories) published
July 1940 Leaves Laugharne for London
Sept 1940 Begins work as script-writer
for films with the Strand Film Company
1940-1 Living partly in London, partly
in Wales
Late 1941 Brings wife and son to
live in Chelsea
Feb 1943 New Poems (USA)
3 Mar 1943 Daughter (Aeronwy) born
1943 Continuous work as broadcaster
begins
Sept 1944 -
Summer 1945 Living at New Quay, Cardiganshire
Summer 1945 - Spring 1946 Living
in London
7 Feb 1946 Deaths and Entrances
published
Mar 1946 - May 1949 Living in or
near Oxford
8 Nov 1946 Selected Writings (USA)
Apr-Aug 1947 Visits Italy
Sept 1947 Moves to live in South
Leigh in Oxfordshire
1948 Writing feature films for Gainsborough
Mar 1949 Visits Prague as guest of
Czechoslovak government
May 1949 Laugharne again becomes
his main home (The Boat House)
14 July 1949 Second son (Colm) born
in Carmarthen
Feb-June 1950 First American Tour
Jan 1951 In Iran, writing film script
for the Anglo Iranian Oil
Jan-May 1952 Second American tour
Feb 1952 In Country Sleep (USA)
10 Nov 1952 Collected Poems 1934-1952
published
16 Dec 1952 The poet's father dies
31 Mar 1953 Collected Poems (USA)
Apr-June 1953 Third American tour
14 May 1953 First performance of
Under Milk Wood in New York
14 May 1953 The Doctor and the
Devils. The first of the film scripts to be published
Oct 1953 Leaves on final American
tour
9 Nov 1953 Dies in St. Vincent's
Hospital, New York City
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