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The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: Under the Spelling Wall

John Goodby

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Swansea University Author: John Goodby

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The first full-length account of Thomas’s poetry since 1966 (135,000 word monograph), with subsidiary treatment of selected short stories, film-scripts and Under Milk Wood. It reads Thomas as a Gothic-grotesque and mannerist modernist, or Blakeian surre(gion)alist, who fused High Modernist ‘difficul...

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ISBN: 9781846318764 978-1-846-31994-5
Published: Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2013
Online Access: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/41243/
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