Dylan Thomas Flashcards
1
Q
Job?
A
Welsh poet
2
Q
Born where?
A
Swansea, South Wales
3
Q
Father’s job?
A
English literature professor at local grammar school and would often recite rythmic ballads to his son
4
Q
Dropped out of school at 16?
A
Became Reporter for South Wales Daily Post, later left job for full time poetry
5
Q
When did he write lot of his collected poems?
A
In late teens
6
Q
Contemporaries?
A
WH Auden and TS Eliot.
7
Q
Different from contemporaries how?
A
Wasn’t interested in cultural and intellectual issues and wrote in a more Romantic, lyrical style
8
Q
What popularised the art of poetry reading?
A
Dylan Thomas tours around USA
9
Q
Famous Works?
A
Poem- do not go gentle into that good night and Play- Under Milk wood
10
Q
Century?
A
20th
