Dylan Thomas

Man and Being in Dylan Thomas

by Nicola D'Ugo

Tra modernismo e postmodernismo. Riflessioni sulla lirica di Dylan Thomas

by Nicola D'Ugo

The concept of classical elements in the poetry of Dylan Thomas

by Vladimir Milenković

Poetry is the enemy of aggressive globalization and information pollution.

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The theme of this essay is the classical concept of the elements and how this concept is realized in the poetry of... more The theme of this essay is the classical concept of the elements and how this concept is realized in the poetry of Dylan Thomas. The historiographical development of the concept and its etymology will be presented. My treatment of interpretation and textual polysemy in this paper will be subjective, but reflections on possible correlations with existing and established philosophical systems are going to be outlined. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the unique realization of the concept in Thomas’ poetry, but likewise to consider more general patterns which are present in the text (cultural memes) and to clarify the meaning of the concept in the broader context of personal reflection and identity. All quoted poems are taken from the book 'The collected poems of Dylan Thomas (1957)', which the poet himself had edited in such a way as to contain only his best and most important works.

Key words: element, meaning, life, death, origin

Cyberdylan: A Poet in the Electric Age

by Ivan Phillips

This was originally presented as a paper at the Dylan Thomas Symposium, The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, in July 2000. It was subsequently printed, in a slightly different form and under a different title, in The Times Literary Supplement:

Phillips, Ivan (2003) 'I sing the bard electric – Dylan Thomas, a poet for the age of mass media'. The Times Literary Supplement. 19 September. 14-15.

"I Sing Perfect Meter": Bardic Voice in Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood and the Arthurian Poems of Charles Williams

by Jonathan Reinhardt

published in Philological Review, Fall 2006, 32.2, 25-59.

This article discusses bardic voice in the radio play "Under Milk Wood" by Dylan Thomas and the Arthurian... more This article discusses bardic voice in the radio play "Under Milk Wood" by Dylan Thomas and the Arthurian cycle of poetry by Charles Williams. To choose bardic voice is automatically to take a slight step back from realism. In the play, Thomas was able to speak in a Welsh mode of bardic voice using a contemporary setting. He could do so primarily because he was Welsh and had conscious access to bardic techniques and attitudes. In contrast, Charles Williams, an English poet and contemporary of Thomas' and member if the Inklings group in Oxford, whose poetry cycle attempted to resurrect medieval Welsh poetry in what he calls a mythopoeic context, falls short precisely because he concentrates on setting rather than bardic stance.