Dylan Thomas
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was the son of an English master at Swansea Grammar School, which he attended. Moving to London, he pursued a career as a journalist and broadcaster. His first two books of poetry, Eighteen Poems (1934) and Twenty-Five Poems (1936), drew attention to him, but it was with his 1946 collection Deaths and Entrances (1946) that he became famous. He was also known for his prose, published in The Map of Love (1939) and the book of short stories Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940). Thomas' writing had a dramatic tone expressed in rhythmic free verse that touched emotionally on matters of love and death, which increased his celebrity but kept him from being regarded among the best poets of his time. His training in radio made him an effective reader of his own work, and he made many recordings of it. In Country Sleep and Other Poems (1951) was another well-received collection, but Thomas died of alcoholism two years later at the age of 39. Some of his best-known works, among them the radio play Under Milk Wood and the prose collection Adventures in the Skin Trade, were published posthumously. Various composers and recording artists have set Thomas' poems to music or used readings of his work on their recordings. Particularly notable among those who have musicalized Thomas is Robin Williamson on his 2001 album The Seed-at-Zero.
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Dylan Thomas and Richard Burton Read Dylan Thomas
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Musical Concepts on 12 Jul 2011
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Reads a Personal Anthology
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by W.O.W. - Words Of Wisdom on 1 Oct 2012
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Dylan Thomas Reads Under Milk Wood
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Musical Concepts on 14 Jun 2011
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Hold Me Down - (Demo)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Dylan Thomas on 15 Oct 2021
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Dylan Thomas reads his prose & more poetry
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Musical Concepts on 14 Jan 2014
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Dylan Thomas Reads His Own Poetry
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Musical Concepts on 14 Jun 2011
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Dylan Thomas Reading the Poetry of William Butler Yeats
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Saland Publishing on 1 Nov 2009
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Under Milk Wood
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by L.A. Theatre Works on 15 Jan 2015
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The Very Best of Dylan Thomas Reading
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Saland Publishing on 1 Nov 2009
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Dylan Thomas Reading...
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Saland Publishing on 25 Nov 2008
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Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas, Nancy Wickwire, Sada Poole
Literature - Released by ETL on 1 Oct 2012
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I Deserve Better
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by DT Records on 16 Apr 2024
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I Survived, Pt. 1
Humour - Released by DT Records on 13 Apr 2024
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I Survived, Pt. 3
Humour - Released by DT Records on 11 Apr 2024
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Love Is Love, Pt. 1
Humour - Released by DT Records on 13 Apr 2024
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