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Dylan Thomas

A Literary Life

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. William Christie

    1. University of Sydney, Australia

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Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Uplands: Growing Up in Cwmdonkin Drive

    • William Christie
    Pages 1-18

  3. Truant Years: Going (and Not Going) to School

    • William Christie
    Pages 19-33

  4. ‘A Bit of a Shower-Off’: Performing in Swansea

    • William Christie
    Pages 34-51

  5. One-Track Mind: From Notebook Poems to 18 Poems

    • William Christie
    Pages 52-71

  6. The Road out of Wales: Fame and Fitzrovia

    • William Christie
    Pages 72-91

  7. ‘From Love’s First Fever’: Love and War, Guile and Beer

    • William Christie
    Pages 92-109

  8. ‘A Crucial Point in His Career’: Reinventing Dylan Thomas

    • William Christie
    Pages 110-125

  9. ‘Radio’s a Building in the Air’: Lord Cut-Glass, Poet of the Airwaves

    • William Christie
    Pages 126-139

  10. ‘My Seashaken House on a Breakneck of Rocks’: The Road to Laugharne

    • William Christie
    Pages 140-155

  11. ‘O My America! My New-Found-Land’: The Poet on Tour

    • William Christie
    Pages 156-172

  12. The Road to Milk Wood

    • William Christie
    Pages 173-190

  13. Epilogue

    • William Christie
    Pages 191-192

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 193-228
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About this book

Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an account of the poet's life, along with a critical reading of his work, that is designed to close what has been called 'the yawning gap' between Dylan Thomas's popular and critical reputations.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Sydney, Australia

    William Christie

About the author

William Christie is Professor of English Literature and Pro-Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and President of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA). He is also Vice President of the Dylan Thomas Society of Australia. His many publications include Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life (2006), awarded the NSW Premier's Biennial Prize for Literary Scholarship in 2008.

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