Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition

Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition
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A classic New Directions book revised for the 21st Century.
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) prepared this volume in 1952â€•the author's choice of the ninety poems he felt would best represent his work up to that timeâ€•and it was published by New Directions in 1953 as The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, shortly after his death. This book was then and remained, for all practical purposes, Thomas's "collected" poems and in that sense complete. However, with the 1971 publication of the 192 poems in The Poems of Dylan Thomas (also now available in a revised edition), Thomas's Collected Poems has naturally evolved to become Thomas's Selected Poems.

Thomas wrote his last poem, "Prologue," especially to begin this collection, and addressed it to "my readers, the strangers." Two unfinished poems are included in this edition: "Elegy," prepared by Vernon Watkins, and "In Country Heaven," prepared by Daniel Jonesâ€•both Welsh poets were life-long friends of Dylan Thomas. Textual corrections discovered over the course of forty years have now been incorporated, and a complete index of titles and first lines, as well as a brief chronology of the author's life, have been added.

As it has for half a century, this book includes the best of Dylan Thomas's poetryâ€•"Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines," "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower," "And Death Shall Have No Dominion," "Poem in October," "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night," "The Hunchback in the Park," "In My Craft or Sullen Art," "In Country Sleep," and Thomas's poignant reflection on his youth, "Fern Hill."
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0811215423_Good
ReleaseDate 2003-03-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811215428

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0811215423_Good
ReleaseDate	2003-03-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811215428

Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition

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