Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
Internationally acclaimed for its eccentricity and adored for its lovelorn lyricism, Dylan Thomas s groundbreaking 1954 play for voices, Under Milk Wood, has long echoed in the imagination of the founding father of British Pop Art, Sir Peter Blake. An obsession that has spanned almost thirty years, this greenleaved sermon on the innocence of men has filled the spaces of Blake s studio, played and replayed on broadcast recordings, and prompted several pilgrimages to Thomas s creative refuge at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. All is strangely simple and simply strange in the sleepy Welsh seaside town of Llareggub, as the dreams, fantasies and realities of the inhabitants unfold across the cycle of one spring day. At once a lively and humorous depiction of the butchers, bakers, preachers and children, of Captain Cat, Nogood Boyo and Polly Garter with a ribaldry in which Blake delights it is also a modern pastoral tale on a Chaucerian scale, a quest for innocence and purity of utterance in a darkest-before-dawn world. Revealed here for the very first time with the definitive play text are the dismays and rainbows of this great artist s richly detailed sequences of 110 watercolors, pencil portraits and collages, comprising one of his most distinctive and significant single bodies of work.
"A dazzling combination of poetic fireworks and music-hall humor" -- The New York Times
"It would be hard for any work of art to communicate more directly and funnily and lovingly what it is like to be alive." -- Randall Jarrell
"It would be hard for any work of art to communicate more directly and funnily and lovingly what it is like to be alive." -- Randall Jarrell
Dylan Thomas, born in Swansea in 1914, is perhaps Wales’ best-known writer, widely considered to be one of the major poets of the 20th century: many of his greatest poems, such as “Fern Hill” and ”’Do not go gentle into that good night”’ are beloved and widely studied. As well as poetry, Dylan Thomas wrote numerous short stories and scripts for film and radio–none more popular than his radio play Under Milk Wood. He led a fascinating and tempestuous life, which ended all too soon in 1953 when he collapsed and died in New York City shortly after his 39th birthday.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811229937 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811229939 |
| Title | Under Milk Wood |
| Author | Dylan Thomas |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2020-03-24 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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