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Dylan Thomas Reads: And Death Shall Have No Dominion/A Winter's Tale/On Reading Poetry Aloud/Other Selections
"And Death Shall Have No Dominion," "A Winter's Tale," "On Reading Poetry Aloud" and other selections.
- GenresPoetry
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Published January 1, 1992
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Dylan Thomas
591 books1,413 followersDylan Marlais Thomas (1914-1953) was a Welsh poet who wrote in English. Many regard him as one of the 20th century's most influential poets.
In addition to poetry, Thomas wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, with the latter frequently performed by Thomas himself. His public readings, particularly in America, won him great acclaim; his booming, at times, ostentatious voice, with a subtle Welsh lilt, became almost as famous as his works. His best-known work includes the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood and the celebrated villanelle for his dying father, "Do not go gentle into that good night." Appreciative critics have also noted the superb craftsmanship and compression of poems such as "In my craft or sullen art" and the rhapsodic lyricism of Fern Hill.
In addition to poetry, Thomas wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, with the latter frequently performed by Thomas himself. His public readings, particularly in America, won him great acclaim; his booming, at times, ostentatious voice, with a subtle Welsh lilt, became almost as famous as his works. His best-known work includes the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood and the celebrated villanelle for his dying father, "Do not go gentle into that good night." Appreciative critics have also noted the superb craftsmanship and compression of poems such as "In my craft or sullen art" and the rhapsodic lyricism of Fern Hill.
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December 12, 2015
This is the second Dylan Thomas I am reviewing after my review of A Child's Christmas in Wales. I am reviewing Poem On His Birthday, And Death Shall Have No Dominion, Lament & Other Poems.
This year is the 100th birthday of a wild but, gifted force. Thomas was not the first great poet from Wales (Ann Griffiths for example), he is by far the most famous.
When he started recording poems for Camden records, he was already known in the UK and the USA for his amazing voice, but many people consider the Camden albums as the birth of the audiobook and I agree. The format of these recordings are presented like a poetry volume. This is the second recording following on his extremely successful A Child's Christmas in Wales & Five Poems, and while that volume has his most famous poem, I prefer this second volume and the poem And Death Shall Have No Dominion. I can listen to this at any time it is so good.
I have to say that, while I am always fascinated at how poets interpret their poems, no one could quite interpret as uniquely as Thomas. While he lived among, and communicated with, many of the modernist poets of his day--and recited much of their poetry on the radio, his poetry was uniquely retro-romanticism. He had more in common with John Keats than W.B. Yeats, this did not stop him from being praised by his relatively older peers. And when he makes these last recordings, mostly in New York, he was ironically at the peak of his fame. Even now I listen to his poem "Lament" and he seems to be prophesying, like a Welsh Tupac Shakur, his untimely demise.
Pay this troubled Brit a service and just listen to him.
This year is the 100th birthday of a wild but, gifted force. Thomas was not the first great poet from Wales (Ann Griffiths for example), he is by far the most famous.
When he started recording poems for Camden records, he was already known in the UK and the USA for his amazing voice, but many people consider the Camden albums as the birth of the audiobook and I agree. The format of these recordings are presented like a poetry volume. This is the second recording following on his extremely successful A Child's Christmas in Wales & Five Poems, and while that volume has his most famous poem, I prefer this second volume and the poem And Death Shall Have No Dominion. I can listen to this at any time it is so good.
I have to say that, while I am always fascinated at how poets interpret their poems, no one could quite interpret as uniquely as Thomas. While he lived among, and communicated with, many of the modernist poets of his day--and recited much of their poetry on the radio, his poetry was uniquely retro-romanticism. He had more in common with John Keats than W.B. Yeats, this did not stop him from being praised by his relatively older peers. And when he makes these last recordings, mostly in New York, he was ironically at the peak of his fame. Even now I listen to his poem "Lament" and he seems to be prophesying, like a Welsh Tupac Shakur, his untimely demise.
Pay this troubled Brit a service and just listen to him.
November 29, 2015
Just A Winter's Tale. Here hisself reads: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfwm...
It is a winter's tale
That the snow blind twilight ferries over the lakes
And floating fields from the farm in the cup of the vales,
Gliding windless through the hand folded flakes,
The pale breath of cattle at the stealthy sail,
And the stars falling cold,
And the smell of hay in the snow, and the far owl
Warning among the folds, and the frozen hold
Flocked with the sheep white smoke of the farm house cowl
In the river wended vales where the tale was told
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And Death Shall have No Dominion
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead man naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
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