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8 unusual facts about Dylan Thomas


Buxton Opera House

After the Second World War, the theatre continued to serve primarily as a cinema, although the Literary and Dramatic Societies of local schools Buxton College and Cavendish Grammar School staged annual performances of either Shakespeare, such as Hamlet (1966), Coriolanus (1968) and Macbeth (1970), or modern works, such as Bertold Brecht's Life of Galileo (1967) and Dylan Thomas's The Doctor & the Devils (1969).

Champagne in Seashells

It includes a bonus track Captain Cat Is Crying with lines from the Dylan Thomas poem Under Milk Wood.

Don't Go Gently

The title of this song is presumably inspired by the Dylan Thomas poem Do not go gentle into that good night, with which it has some commonality of theme.

Peter Grippe

While primarily known as a sculptor working in bronze and clay, he created a portfolio of etchings by 21 artists (examples include Willem de Kooning, Jacques Lipchitz, and Peter Grippe himself) and 21 poets (including Frank O'Hara, Dylan Thomas, and Thomas Merton) in a work entitled 21 Etchings and Poems.

River Gwendraeth

To the south of the estuary are the great flat sands of Cefn Sidan and Pembrey, whilst across the estuary on the banks of the River Taf is Laugharne famed for its association with Dylan Thomas.

Thomas v Times Book Company

On Monday 19 October 1953, writer Dylan Thomas told BBC producer Donald Cleverdon that he could keep the original manuscript of the play Under Milk Wood - if he could find it.

Vesuvio Cafe

The bar was founded in 1948 by Henri Lenoir, and was frequented by a number of Beat Generation celebrities including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Neal Cassady, as well as other notable cultural figures such as Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan and Francis Ford Coppola.

Ystrad Aeron

One pub, the Vale of Aeron, was reportedly a favourite watering hole of Dylan Thomas when he lived in nearby Talsarn in the 1940s.


18 Poems

18 Poems is a book of poetry written by the Welsh poet Dylan Marlais Thomas, published in 1934 as the winner of a contest sponsored by Sunday Referee.

A Child's Christmases in Wales

An adaption of Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales, the comedy, set in South Wales, and filmed in the small mining town of Ferndale focuses on the character Owen Rhys's reminiscing on three separate Christmases, 1983, 1986 and 1989.

Cardiff Rift

In Under Torch Wood, a one-off Torchwood parody for The Register (a dialogue in the style of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' radio play Under Milk Wood), columnist Verity Stob derides the device as lazy writing on the part of Davies and his writing team, and comments on its large indebtedness to the Hellmouth from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Exiting Arm

He cited Buckminster Fuller, Dylan Thomas, The NeverEnding Story and Le Corbusier's modular man as ideas which contributed to the creation of the album.

Fishguard

Lower Fishguard was used as "Llareggub" in the film of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O'Toole.

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Some other works that he translated are: Pre-Philosophy by Henry Frankfurt and Others; Sight and Insights by Alexander Elliot; The Author and His Profession by 10 American critics; The Life in Drama by Eric Bentley; The Myth and the Symbol by several critics; Axel's Castle by Edmund Wilson; Articles by 14 American critics about poet Dylan Thomas; Albert Camus by Germen Perry; and The Tower of Babel by André Barot.

Johnstone Gallery

Prior to the commencement of the building of the theatre, a production of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas was staged in a tent on the site of the future theatre.

Lady Edith Foxwell

In her role as a producer's wife she began meeting many celebrities and showed the forcefulness of her personality when she locked the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in a room for five days, forcing him to remain sober long enough to complete a film script that her husband was producing.

Lewis Turco

Since 2012 he has been in the Honour Committee of Immagine & Poesia, the artistic literary movement founded in Turin, Italy, with the patronage of Aeronwy Thomas (Dylan Thomas's daughter).

Loin Like a Hunting Flame

The episode's title is taken from a line in the Dylan Thomas poem Ballad of the Long-legged Bait, which was first published in 1946's Deaths and Entrances; while the quotation displayed at the beginning—"Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast"—is taken from Goethe's Faust, a two-part 19th century play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

The episode—Nutter's last contribution to the series—contains several literary references, alluding to both Dylan Thomas and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Since 2012 she has been in the Honour Committee of Immagine & Poesia, the artistic literary movement founded in Turin, Italy, with the patronage of Aeronwy Thomas (Dylan Thomas's daughter).

Marina Giordana

After her time at Lancio, Marina has continued her acting career with theatrical work that includes Shakespeare plays such as Love's Labours Lost (Pene d'amore perdute in Italian) and The Taming of the Shrew (La bisbetica domata in Italian), and Under Milk Wood (Sotto il bosco di latte in Italian) by Dylan Thomas.

Murdoch Burnett

He has always maintained that the single volume of poetry that most influenced his work was The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot and he is a great admirer of the poetry of Dylan Thomas and the Beat Generation poets, many of whom he met and worked with in their later years.

No Room at the Inn

The screenplay was adapted by Dylan Thomas and Ivan Foxwell from the play of the same name by Joan Temple; directed by Anthony Hawtrey, this had opened in July 1945 at the Embassy Theatre in north London prior to transferring to the West End.

Owen Harper

For example, Verity Stob's parody of the 2006 series of Torchwood, entitled Under Torch Wood (in the style of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood), comments on Owen's unlikeable personality and behaviour over the course of series one.

Poetry and the Microphone

Notable for including Orwell’s sentence: "Poetry on the air sounds like the Muses in striped trousers.", the article mentions some of the material used in the broadcasts, mainly by contemporary or near-contemporary English writers such as T. S. Eliot, Herbert Read, Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, Henry Treece, Alex Comfort, Robert Bridges, Edmund Blunden, and D. H. Lawrence.

Raymond Garlick

There with enthusiasm he introduced his students to the works of such writers as David Jones, Idris Davies, Glyn Jones, Alun Lewis, Dylan Thomas, R. S. Thomas, John Ormond and Leslie Norris.

Raymond Llewellyn

His last work before his retirement was in the film The Edge of Love, about an incident in the life of Dylan Thomas, with Keira Knightley.

Rebecca Riots

In 1948 Dylan Thomas wrote the screenplay for a film, Rebecca's Daughters, which was published as a novel of the same name in 1965.

Robert Colquhoun

At the height of their acclaim they courted a large circle of friends - including Michael Ayrton, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and John Minton as well as the poets George Barker and Dylan Thomas - and were renowned for their parties at their studio (77 Bedford Gardens).

Steven Gerber

During his years as a graduate student, he wrote serial and non-twelve-tone works, such as the a cappella choral works "Dylan Thomas Settings" and "Illuminations" (Rimbaud), and throughout the remainder of the 1970s most of his works were twelve-tone.

Ulice jak stygmaty – absolutne rarytasy

This CD contains new versions of old Pidzama's songs, also some songs which had not been written by Grabaż – "Nimfy (Baby)" by the words of Anatol Stern, "Dłoń, która podpisała papier" – by the words of Dylan Thomas (translated by poet Stanisław Barańczak) and "Outsider" – a song originally made by T.Love, written by Muniek Staszczyk, personally a friend of Krzysztof "Grabaz" Grabowski.

Warriors of the Wasteland

Having already referenced literary heavyweights such as Coleridge in "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" and Thomas in "Rage Hard", for "Warriors of the Wasteland" Holly Johnson turned to T. S. Eliot for inspiration.


see also

Jens Gunderssen

Here he got acclaim for his production of Dylan Thomas' play Under Milk Wood.

Nightwood

Dylan Thomas described Nightwood as "one of the three great prose books ever written by a woman," while William S. Burroughs called it "one of the great books of the twentieth century."