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Under Milk Wood: The beloved Welsh modern classic

Autor Dylan Thomas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iul 2026
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea...
'A tour de force of oral poetry' GUARDIAN
'I could get drunk just on the sound of the words' SYLVIA PLATH
Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas's best-known and best-loved work. A 'play for voices', it tells the story of the seaside village of Llareggub over one spring day. We meet curious characters such as Captain Cat, who dreams of his drowned seafellows, and Nogood Boyo, who dreams of nothing at all. Lyrical, funny and moving, Under Milk Wood has captured the imaginations of generations of readers.
This definitive edition of a modern classic includes notes, selected criticism and a chronology of Thomas's life and times alongside an authoritative introduction from Walford Davies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781399637848
ISBN-10: 1399637843
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

A tour de force of oral poetry which oozes word pictures and onomatopoeic musicality
Dylan Thomas disturbed the roots of our language in an organic way and gave it a new vitality
Roguish, prancing, with blazing characters and lines. The words dizzied me, their grandeur, their wit
A dazzling combination of poetic fireworks and music-hall humor
It would be hard for any work of art to communicate more directly and funnily and lovingly what it is like to be alive

Notă biografică

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914, where he worked as a reporter on the local newspaper. He published his first volume of poetry, 18 Poems, when he was just twenty years old. Thereafter, bohemian literary life in London alternated with some more positively creative periods back in Wales. He had a celebrated career as a writer for radio and film, and he continued to publish poetry and short stories. From 1950 onwards, Thomas' attention was given mainly to completing his most famous work, Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices. The poet died in New York in 1953 and is buried at Laugharne.