Biography Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlis Thomas English. Dylan Marlais Thomas is a Welsh poet, playwright, publicist. His father was a writer, had a degree in English. Dylan was brought up so that he knew only English, although Welsh was his mother’s native language. The name of Marlis Thomas owes his uncle, the preacher-Unitarian William Thomas, who was fond of Celtic culture of Wales and took himself the Bardic name Gvilim Marls Gwilym Marlys.

Thomas graduated from the grammatical school of Swanxi in the Mount Plezant area; His father taught English literature in this school for boys. In the school magazine, Dylan published his first poem. At 16, he threw a school and worked as a reporter for a year and a half. Tomas's childhood was mainly in Swanxi, as well as on a farm in Karmartenshire, which belonged to his mother's family.

These trips to the village and their contrast with the city life in Swanxi became the basis for a large part of Thomas's work, especially his stories and radio (fern hill. Half of Thomas’s poems and many stories were written in the house belonging to his family number 5 according to the Kumdonkin Drive; There, in particular, the poem was created “and death remains of an limp”, one of the most famous works of Thomas it was used in the film by Stephen Sodelaris.

By the time the first collection of “18 poems” was released, November Thomas was already one of the most famous young English -speaking poets. In the year, Thomas married Caitlin Maknamara. They had three children, despite the difficulties in relations and frequent betrayals. In January, the son of Llevellin died in the year. In March, the daughter of Ironui was born, and in July - the son of Kolm Guarantee.

During the Second World War, Thomas was not drafted into the army, so was recognized as worthless to service for health reasons. Nevertheless, he worked for the government - he wrote propaganda texts. Thomas loved to boast of how much alcohol he could drink. One of his phrases known - “I drank 18 whiskey in a row; It seems to be a record. ” The cause of his death was pneumonia along with high pressure in the blood vessels of the brain and liver problems.

According to some reports, his last words were "and this is all that I did at 39." After his death, he was transported to Wales and was buried near the church in Loharne Karmartenshire. In the year, his widow Caitlin was buried there. Creativity, in contrast to the work of the poets of his time, turning to realism, Thomas's poetry is characterized by vivid, sometimes fantastic images; In many ways, his work is close to a romantic tradition.

An important source of his inspiration was Welsh folklore and mythology, children's impressions of life in rural Wales his play “Childhood, Christmas, Wales” is still read on the radio for Christmas every year, and the radio pester “under the canopy of milk forest”, perhaps the most famous work of Thomas, is dedicated to the life of a small Welsh city. The plot is based on genuine history, as the scientist bought fresh corpses for anatomical research, although he suspected that they were obtained by murder.