A reader's guide to Dylan Thomas

by William York Tindall

William York Tindall, A Reader's Guide to Dylan Thomas, paperback

Genres: Poetry

305 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

William York Tindall was an American Joycean scholar with a long and distinguished teaching career at Columbia University. Several of Tindall's classic works of criticism, including A Reader's Guide to James Joyce and A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake are still in print. He wrote a total of thirteen books on UK and Irish writers including Joyce, Dylan Thomas, W. B. Yeats, and Samuel Beckett. Indeed, Tindall nominated Beckett for the Nobel Prize in Literature; Beckett was the 1969 laureate.

Reviews

[Ben Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

An essential companion to Thomas's Collected Poems. Tindall's commentary is detailed and insightful, but does not pretend to be the final word on Thomas's polysemous words.