CHAPTER ONE: the WELSH BACKGROUND I. Dylan Thomas: Quoted by Geoffrey Moore in 'Dylan Thomas', Kenyon Review, Vol
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NOTES CHAPTER ONE: THE WELSH BACKGROUND I. Dylan Thomas: quoted by Geoffrey Moore in 'Dylan Thomas', Kenyon Review, vol. xvii (Spring 1955), p. 26,. 2. Dylan Thomas: New Verse, no. II (October 1934), p. 9. Thomas was then nineteen years old. 3. GwynJones: 'Welsh Dylan', Adelphi, vol. 30, no. 2 (February 1954), p. 115. 4. Karl Shapiro: 'Dylan Thomas', Poetry, vol. 87, no. 2 (November 1955), P· l05· 5. Vernon Watkins: comment on a review of J. M. Brinnin: Dylan Thomas in America in Encounter, vol. VI, no. 6 (June 1956), p. 78. 6. Geoffrey Moore: 'Dylan Thomas', Kenyon Review, vol. xvii (Spring 1955), pp. 264-5. 7. Robert Graves: Foreword to Alun Lewis: Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets (London, 1945), p. 7. 8. A. G. Prys-Jones: 'Death Shall Have No Dominion', Dock Leaves (Dylan Thomas Memorial Number), vol. 5, no. 13 (Spring 1954), p. 27. 9. See David Williams: A History of Modern Wales (London, 1950), p. 272. 10. Thomas Parry: A History of Welsh Literature, translated by H. Idris Bell (London, '955),P. 48. I I. See Gwyn Williams: An Introduction to Welsh Poetry (London, 1953), pp. 243-5· 12. Gwyn Jones: 'Welsh Dylan', Adelphi, vol. 30, no. 2 (Spring 1954), p. 115. 13. Matthew Arnold: On the Stucfy of Celtic Literature (London, 1919), p. 83. 14. Ibid., p. 110. 15. Geraint Goodwin: The Heyday in the Blood (London, 1954), p. 124. 16. Caitlin Thomas: Leftover Life to Kill (London, 1957), pp. 73-74. 17. Rhys Davies: The Story of Wales (London, 1943), p. 24. 18. T. Rowland Hughes: From Hand to Hand, translated from the Welsh by R. C. Ruck (London, 1950), p. 27. 19. GwynJones: Introduction to Welsh Short Storns (London, 1956), p. xiii. CHAPTER TWO: THE INTRUDERS: INFLUENCES AND RELATIONSHIPS I. Stephen Spender: Spectator (5 December 1952), pp. 780--1. 2. Dylan Thomas in a letter to Stephen Spender (9 December 1952), quoted by Derek Stanford: Dylan Thomas (London, 1954), p. 25. 3. Gwyn Thomas: quoted in 'Language, Style, and the Anglo-Welsh' by Gwyn Jones, Essays and Studies (1953), p. 107. 4. Dylan Thomas: Quite Early One Morning (London, 1954), pp. 147-8. 5. Ibid., p. 148. 6. Alun Lewis: 'The Mountain Over Aberdare', from Raiders' Dawn (London, 1942), p. 87: 186 DYLAN THOMAS From this high quarried ledge I see The place for which the Quakers once Collected clothes, my fathers' home, Our stubborn bankrupt village sprawled In jaded dusk beneath its nameless hills; The drab streets strung across the cwm, Derelict workings, tips of slag The gospellers and gamblers use And children scrutting for the coal That winter dole cannot purvey; Allotments where the collier digs While engines hack the coal within his brain; Grey Hebron in a rigid cramp, White cheap-jack cinema, the church Stretched like a sow beside the stream; And mourners in their Sunday best Holding a tiny funeral, singing hymns That drift insidious as the rain..•• And in a curtained parlour women hug Huge grief, and anger against God.... 7. Vernon Watkins: 'Innovation and Tradition', unsigned Obituary Notice, The Times (10 November 1953). 8. A. G. Prys-Jones: 'Death Shall Have No Dominion', Dock Leaves, vol. 5 (Spring 1954), no. 13, p. 26. g. Collected Poems, p. 13. 10. Henry Vaughan: The Wurks of Hen~y Vaughan, vol. 1, Edited by L. C. l\Iartill (Oxford, 1957), pp. 419-20. 11. Thomas Traherne: Centuries of A1editations (London, 1908), pp. 156-7. 12. Dylan Thomas: 'On Reading One's Own Poems', Quite Early One Morning, P·131• 13. Vernon Watkins: a short autobiographical note in Tu'elltieth Century Authors: First Supplement, Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz (New York, 1955), p. 1,052. 14. Dylan Thomas: Letters to Vernon Watkills (London, 1957), p. 64. 15. Ibid., pp. 17-18. CHAPTER THREE : EARLY YEARS I. The J\1abil1ogion, translated by Gwyn Jones and T. Jones (London, 1949), pp.63-64· 2. Edward Thomas: The Life and Letters of Edward Thomas, Edited by John Moore (London, 1939), pp. 156 and 168. 3. Dylan Thomas: 'Reminiscences of Childhood' (First Version), Quite Early One Morning, p. I. 4. I am indebted for much information concerning Dylan Thomas's early years to !virs. D. J. Thomas, the poet's mother, GlynJones, a close friend of Thomas in his late teens, and Mr. David Richards. 5. Mrs. D.J. Thomas: in an interview reported in Everybody's (21 April 1956), pp. 23 and 39. The article, entitled 'Go and Write, Boy!', was written by Paul Ferris. 6. Caitlin Thomas: Leftover Life to Kill, p. 56. 7 . .T. M. Brinnin: Dylan Thomas in America (London, 1956), p. 92. 8. Dylan Thomas: 'Modern Poetry', Swansea Grammar&hool Magazine, vol. 26, no. 3 (December 1929), pp. 82-34. NOTES 9. Ibid., vol. 27, no. 3, p. 112. 10. Dylan Thomas: 'Reminiscences of Childhood', Quite Early One Alorning, PP·5-6· II. Dylan Thomas: Portrait of the Artist as a 2"oung Dog (London, 1940), p. 13. 12. Ibid., pp. 9-10 13. Dylan Thomas: Swansea Grammar Sclwol }daga:dne, vol. 27, no. 3 (December 1930), pp. 87--89· 14. Ibid., p. 82. 15. Dylan Thomas: Quite Early One Morning, p. 81. 16. Dylan Thomas: Portrait of the Artist as a 2"oung Dog, pp. 186-7. 17. Augustus John: 'The Monogamous Bohemian', Adam (Dylan Thomas Memorial Number), no. 238 (December 1953), p. 10. 18. J. M. Brinnin: Dylan Thomas in America, p. 26. 19. Dylan Thomas: quoted in Adam, no. 238 (December 1953), p. 68. 20. Dylan Thomas: Portrait of the Artist as a 2"oung Dog, pp. 129-30. 2 I. Ibid., pp. 195-6. 22. Gwyn Jones: 'Welsh Dylan', Adelphi, vol. 30, no. 2 (February 1954), p. 112. 23. Geoffrey Moore: 'Dylan Thomas', Kenyon Review, vol. xvii (1955), p. 264. 24. Dylan Thomas: 'Tragedy of Swansea's Comic Genius', Herald of Wales (23 January 1932), p. 6. 25. Dylan Thomas: 'A Modem Poet Of Gower: Anglo-Welsh Bards', Herald of Wales (25 June 1932), p. 8. 26. Dylan Thomas: Quite Early One Morning, pp. 75-76. 27. Dylan Thomas: quoted in Adam, no. 238, p. 68. CHAPTER FOUR: 18 POEMS I. Vernon Watkins: Introduction to Dylan Thomas: Letters to Vernon Watkins, pp. 12-13. 2. Vernon Watkins: 'Innovation and Tradition', unsigned Obituary Notice, The Times (10 November 1953). 3. Dylan Thomas: Letters to Vernon Watkins, p. 49. 4. T. S. Eliot: After Strange Gods (London, 1934), p. 38. 5. Ibid., pp. 19--20. 6. Vernon Watkins: Comment on a review of J. M. Brinnin: Dylan Tlwmas in America in Encounter, vol. vi, no. 6 (June 1956), p. 77. 7. Dylan Thomas: quoted by Geoffrey Moore in 'Dylan Thomas', Kenyon Review, vol. xvii, p. 261. 8. Caitlin Thomas: Leftover Life to Kill, p. 57. 9. V. S. Pritchett: 'The English Puritan', New Statesman and Nation, vol. !iii, no. 1,350 (26 January 1957), p- 103. 10. Margiad Evans: Autobiography (London, 1952), p. 158. II. 'Hymne to God, my God, in my sicknesse', Donne's Poetical Works, vol. i, Edited by H. J. C. Grierson (London, 1912), p. 368. 12. Robert Martin Adams: 'Taste and Bad Taste in Metaphysical Poetry', Hudson Review, vol. viii, no. I, p. 73. 13. Karl Shapiro: 'Dylan Thomas', Poetry, vol. 87, no. 2 (November 1955), p.106. 14. Dylan Thomas: Adventures in the Skin Trade and other stories (New York, 1955), pp- 129-30. 15. Ibid., p. 136. 16. R. B. Marriott: Adam, no. 238, p. 32. 17. Karl Shapiro: 'Dylan Thomas', Poetry, vol. 87, no. 2, p. 110. 18. Francis Scarfe: Auden and After (London, 1945), pp. 112-13. o 188 DYLAN THOMAS 19. Dylan Thomas: quoted in Henry Treece: Dylan Thomas (London, 1949), p.4B. 20. Ibid., pp. 47-411. 21. Dylan Thomas: Letters to Vernon Watkins, p. 38. 22. Collected Poems, p. 4. 23· Ibid., p. 15. 24· Ibid., p. 37. 25. Ibid., p. 38. 26. Dylan Thomas: Portrait oftM Artist as a 'Young Dog, p. 30. 27. Margiad Evans: Autobiography, p. 26. 28. Ibid., pp. 46 and 47. CHAPTER FIVE: TWENT'Y-FIVE POEMS I. Collected Poems, p. 73. 2. Derek Stanford: Dylan Thomas, p. 24. 3. Dylan Thomas: Portrait of the Artist as a 'Young Dog, pp. 21-22. 4. Karl Shapiro: 'Dylan Thomas', Poetry, vol. 87, no. 2, p. 104. 5. T. S. Eliot: After Strange Gods, p. 53. 6. Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood, p. 81. 7. Karl Shapiro: 'Dylan Thomas', Poetry, vol. 87, no. 2, p. 106. 8. Matthew Arnold: On tM Study of Celtic Literature, p. 116. 9. Lawrence Durrell: Poetry London-New Tork, no. I (March-April,1956), p. 34. CHAPTER SIX: THE MAP OF LOVE I. Vernon Watkins: 'Dylan Thomas', unsigned Obituary Notice, The Times (10 November 1953). 2. Karl Shapiro: 'Dylan Thomas', Poetry, vol. 87, no. 2, p. 108. 3. David Richards: Preface to an unpublished manuscript by Dylan Thomas. 4. Dylan Thomas: quoted by Henry Treece: Dylan Thomas, p. 47. 5. Dylan Thomas: 'On Reading One's Own Poems', Quite Early One Morning, P·137· 6. Dylan Thomas: Portrait of the Artist as a 'Young Dog, pp. 23-24. 7. John Donne: Deaths Duell, Sermons of John Donne, vol. x, Edited by E. M. Simpson and G. R. Potter (California, 1961), pp. 232-3. 8. Ibid., p. 238. 9. Babette Deutsch: 'The Orient Wheat', Virginia QuarterlY Review, vol. 27, no. 2 (Spring 1951), p. 224. 10. William Blake: Poetry and Prose, Edited by G. Keynes (London, 1946), P· 187· I I. Vernon Watkins: Introduction to Dylan Thomas: Letters to Vernon Watkins, P·13· 12. David Aivaz: 'The Poetry of Dylan Thomas', The Hudson Review, Vol.