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Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters
On sale
23rd October 2014
Price: £16.99
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ebook / ISBN-13: 9781780229171
Dylan Thomas’s letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no biography can.
The letters begin in the poet’s schooldays and end just before his death in New York at the age of 39. In between, he loved, wrote, drank, begged and borrowed his way through a flamboyant life. He was an enthusiastic critic of other writers’ work and the letters are full of his thoughts on the work of his contemporaries, from T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden to Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis.
More than one hundred new letters have been added since Paul Ferris edited the first edition of the COLLECTED LETTERS in 1985. They cast Thomas’s adolescence in Swansea and his love affair with Caitlin into sharper focus. A lifetime of letters tell a remarkable story, each taking the reader a little further along the path of the poet’s self-destruction, but written with such verve and lyricism that somehow the reader’s sympathies never quite abandon him.
The definitive collection of Dylan Thomas’s letters reprinted to celebrate the centenary of his birth and featuring a bold new livery.
The letters begin in the poet’s schooldays and end just before his death in New York at the age of 39. In between, he loved, wrote, drank, begged and borrowed his way through a flamboyant life. He was an enthusiastic critic of other writers’ work and the letters are full of his thoughts on the work of his contemporaries, from T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden to Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis.
More than one hundred new letters have been added since Paul Ferris edited the first edition of the COLLECTED LETTERS in 1985. They cast Thomas’s adolescence in Swansea and his love affair with Caitlin into sharper focus. A lifetime of letters tell a remarkable story, each taking the reader a little further along the path of the poet’s self-destruction, but written with such verve and lyricism that somehow the reader’s sympathies never quite abandon him.
The definitive collection of Dylan Thomas’s letters reprinted to celebrate the centenary of his birth and featuring a bold new livery.
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