DYLAN THOMAS: THE COLLECTED LETTERS VOLUME 1 - 1931-1939 IN SOUTH AFRICA

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no biography can.The letters begin in the poet's schooldays and end just before his death in New York at the age of 39. In between, he loved, wrote, drank, begged and borrowed his way through a flamboyant life. He was an enthusiastic critic of other writers' work and the letters are full of his thoughts on the work of his contemporaries, from T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden to Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis.A lifetime of letters tell a remarkable story, each taking the reader a little further along the path of the poet's self-destruction, but written with such verve and lyricism that somehow the reader's sympathies never quite abandon him. Features Summary The first volume of the definitive collection of Dylan Thomas's letters. Author Dylan Thomas Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson Release date 20170912 Pages 476 ISBN 1-4746-0799-3 ISBN 13 978-1-4746-0799-5