Dylan Thomas in America

by John Malcolm Brinnin

Book Overview

When the celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas arrived in New York on his first visit in 1950, for a tour of poetry readings around the country, America didn’t know what had hit it. Angelic, devilish,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557781613
• ISBN13: 9781557781611
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Essential reading

Here is Dylan Thomas in all his maddening humanity: the houseguest of your nightmares who will steal your shirts, the visitor to a women's college who becomes embarrassingly excited by the sight of girls in casual dress.Brinnin chronicles all of Thomas's excesses including the poet's fatal marriage to alcohol.This book should be kept as a companion to Constantine Fitzgibbon's classic biography.In the end Brinnin-and the reader-forgive Dylan Thomas all his childishness because of the tidal waves of eloquence that arise from the Welsh poet's genius. Thomas is so overpowering a figure that one almost doesn't notice how brilliantly Brinnin has rendered him,as well as the social milieu of 1950's America.

Excellent supplemental reading for the study of Dylan Thomas

Welsh poet Dylan Thomas made history in his poetry readings to an American audience in 1950: his style and presentation went beyond most academic presentations of poetry and entered the realm of the personal. This provides a biography of Thomas which is key to understanding his works and experiences in this country, and will make for excellent supplemental reading for those studying his writings.