The Poems of Dylan Thomas, New Revised Edition [with CD]

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Summary: Will you like Dylan Thomas?
Review: Certainly, if you like poetry at all. Open the book at random and start listening to the sound as you read. OK---in my case, it's fallen open at this:
Shall gods be said to thump the clouds
When clouds are cursed by thunder,
Be said to weep when weather howls?
Shall rainbows be their tunics' colour?
So on one level, this is poetry for mouthing and savouring and enjoying like music. Technically, it's tight as a drum. See how the vowels are juxtaposed and notice the assonance and shape-rhymes at the end of the lines. Then comes the meaning. Dylan Thomas is not the simplest poet to understand, but he always has a strong, strident, moving argument to make that you can't forget, even if you don't agree. This edition includes recordings of the poet reading some of the verses in his strangely old-fashioned, but unforgettable voice. I first met Dylan Thomas's poems when I was 14, at a stormy, angry, poetry-writing age. That's a good moment to encounter a great poet and find out what else can be said and considered and felt. If it's Dylan Thomas, there's a strong chance he'll stay with you for the rest of your life. This is a book to leave around casually for others to find, especially if they're at a stormy, angry, poetry-writing age. If only more of us were, more of the time.

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Summary: The Poems of Dylan Thomas
Review: Dylan Thomas was a weirdo and i think that this book illistrates that in a wonderful manner. he was awesome

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Summary: The most complete edition of the heartfelt works
Review: Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Daniel Jones, The Poems Of Dylan Thomas is the most complete edition of the heartfelt works of this noted and influential twentieth-century poet. 192 poems, incorporating some textual corrections, a brief chronology of Thomas' life (1914-1953), a new preface, and the inclusion of Dylan Thomas' "Notes on the Art of Poetry" comprise this literate, majestic, and absorbing 352-page collection. Request To Leda (Homage to William Empson): Not your winged lust but his must now change suit/The harp-waked Casanova rakes no range./The worm is (pin-point) rational in the fruit. // Not girl for bird (gourd being man) breaks root./Taking no plume for index in love's change/Not your winged lust but his must now change suit. // Desire is phosphorus: the chemic bruit/Lust bears like volts, who'll amplify, and strange/The worm is (pin-point) not rational in the fruit.

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Summary: dylan thomas is one of my favorite poet
Review: Years ago i read "do not go gentle into that good night" and i was introduced to dylan thomas. i quickly went out and bought his collected poems, and was totally enraptured by the poet. he has stayed on the top of my favorites, even as i read more and more poetry. this collection is not a complete works. it contains what Daniel Jones (a friend of DT's) selected out of thomas' works. the collected poems and about 100 other poems, one additional incomplete poem, and 26 poems from DT's juvenalia. it's a good collection, but you can see why dylan thomas did not include these extra poems in his collected poems. they aren't as great as what he can produce. if you love dylan thomas, like i do, then this is a great book to buy, otherwise, you can just stick with the collected poems (those poems were selected by DT himself, as the work he wanted to "save").

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Summary: dylan thomas is one of my favorite poet
Review: Years ago i read "do not go gentle into that good night" and i was introduced to dylan thomas. i quickly went out and bought his collected poems, and was totally enraptured by the poet. he has stayed on the top of my favorites, even as i read more and more poetry. this collection is not a complete works. it contains what Daniel Jones (a friend of DT's) selected out of thomas' works. the collected poems and about 100 other poems, one additional incomplete poem, and 26 poems from DT's juvenalia. it's a good collection, but you can see why dylan thomas did not include these extra poems in his collected poems. they aren't as great as what he can produce. if you love dylan thomas, like i do, then this is a great book to buy, otherwise, you can just stick with the collected poems (those poems were selected by DT himself, as the work he wanted to "save").