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In My Craft or Sullen Art – The Selected Poetry of Dylan Thomas

Including the Essay 'How to be a Poet'

A hauntingly beautiful introduction to one of the greatest literary voices in Welsh history, this collection celebrates the intensely emotional and lyrical poetry of Dylan Thomas.

Price range: £4.99 through £19.99

Price range: £4.99 through £19.99

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Author

Dylan Thomas

Imprint

Ragged Hand - Read & Co.

Categories

Classic Fiction

English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Poetry

Great Britain

History

Poetry

Poetry & Drama

Regional & National History

Fiction

ISBN

9781528723381, 9781528773652, 9781528799126

Formats Available

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Pages

220

Publication Date

01 January 2024, 05 November 2024

Weight 288.4896 kg
Dimensions 5.5 × 8.5 in

Book Description

A hauntingly beautiful introduction to one of the greatest literary voices in Welsh history, this collection celebrates the intensely emotional and lyrical poetry of Dylan Thomas.

In a unique volume of selected poetry by Dylan Thomas, this anthology collects the most powerful and enchanting work from the Welsh writer. Born and raised in Swansea, Thomas was a soft, quiet, often-ill child, but rose to become a British media star and one of the most recognisable poets of the twentieth century. This collection breathes fresh life into his body of work, featuring masterful poems such as ‘In My Craft or Sullen Art’, ‘Fern Hill’, and ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’.

Ragged Hand proudly introduces this new edition of The Selected Poetry of Dylan Thomas, also featuring his introductory essay, ‘How to be a Poet’.

Editorial Reviews

Dylan Thomas is a young English poet whose work produced excited cries from young American poets..’ —The Nation, September 18, 1943 ‘Thomas has the bardic consciousness: he writes a personal lyric in which the sense of his own history and name is surrounded by strange lights and glooms, and if his poems are often obscure, it is that they obey nocturnal laws. His poetry exists in a world in which the sexual forces of nature, the shifting tides and currents for which the individual cannot fully account but to which the passion of his being is finally responsible, override the merely personal clamor.’ —The Nation, May 2, 1953 ‘It need no longer be eccentric to claim that Thomas is the greatest living poet in the English language.’—Philip Toynbee (The Nation, May 2, 1953)

Chapter Highlights

Biography of Dylan Thomas; How To Be A Poet; The Song Of The Mischievous Dog; I See The Boys Of Summer; When Once The Twilight Locks No Longer; A Process In The Weather Of The Heart; Before I Knocked; The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower; My Hero Bares His Nerves; Where Once The Waters Of Your Face; If I Were Tickled By The Rub Of Love; Our Eunuch Dreams; Especially When The October Wind; When; Like A Running Grave; From Love’s First Fever To Her Plague; In The Beginning; Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines; I Fellowed Sleep; I Dreamed My Genesis; My World Is Pyramid ; All All And All The Dry Worlds Lever; I; In My Intricate Image; This Bread I Break; Incarnate Devil; Today; This Insect; The Seed-At-Zero; Shall Gods Be Said To Thump The Clouds; Here In This Spring; Do You Not Father Me; Out Of The Sighs; Hold Hard; These Ancient Minutes In The Cuckoo’s Month; Was There A Time; Now; Why East Wind Chills; A Grief Ago; How Soon The Servant Sun; Ears In The Turrets Hear; Foster The Light; The Hand That Signed The Paper; Should Lanterns Shine; I Have Longed To Move Away; Find Meat On Bones; Grief Thief Of Time; And Death Shall Have No Dominion; Then Was My Neophyte; Altarwise By Owl-Light; Because The Pleasure-Bird Whistles; I Make This In A Warring Absence; When All My Five And Country Senses See; We Lying By Seasand; It Is The Sinners’ Dust-Tongued Bell; O Make Me A Mask; The Spire Cranes; After The Funeral ; Once It Was The Colour Of Saying; Not From This Anger; How Shall My Animal; The Tombstone Told When She Died; On No Work Of Words; A Saint About To Fall; If My Head Hurt A Hair’s Foot; Twenty-Four Years; There Was A Saviour; Into Her Lying Down Head; Among Those Killed In The Dawn Raid Was A Man Aged One Hundred; To Others Than You; Love In The Asylum; On The Marriage Of A Virgin; When I Woke; The Town Spoke; The Hunchback In The Park; On A Wedding Anniversary; To Caitlin ; The Ballad Of The Long-Legged Bait; Once Below A Time; Request To Leda; Deaths And Entrances; The Conversation Of Prayers; A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London; Poem In October; This Side Of The Truth ; Paper And Sticks; A Winter’s Tale; In My Craft Or Sullen Art; Ceremony After A Fire Raid; Vision And Prayer; Lie Still; Sleep Becalmed; Holy Spring; Fern Hill; In Country Sleep; Over Sir John’s Hill; Poem On His Birthday; Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night; Lament; In The White Giant’s Thigh; Bibliography

In My Craft or Sullen Art – The Selected Poetry of Dylan Thomas

Including the Essay 'How to be a Poet'

Price range: £4.99 through £19.99

A hauntingly beautiful introduction to one of the greatest literary voices in Welsh history, this collection celebrates the intensely emotional and lyrical poetry of Dylan Thomas.

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