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  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
Dylan Thomas

(1914–53)
Welsh poet, born in Swansea, who developed a double reputation, for his romantic poems (much influenced by *Hopkins) and for his bucolic lifestyle – as seen in London's drinking clubs and on his four tours of the USA. Many of his best-known poems, including 'Fern Hill' and 'In my Craft or Sullen Art', were published in Deaths and Entrances (1946). *'Do not go gentle into that good night' was included in his much reprinted Collected Poems (1952).
 






Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940, echoing James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1915) is a collection of autobiographical short stories; they demonstrate the ability to find comedy and delight in a cast of everyday characters, which he later put to such good effect in his last work, *Under Milk Wood. He appeared in the first performance of this in New York in October 1953, and two weeks later died there of alcoholic poisoning.
 








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