Dylan the Bard: A Life of Dylan Thomas - Hardcover

Sinclair, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312265808 ISBN 13: 9780312265809

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Explores the relationship between the poet's work and his self-destructive personal nature.

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About the Author:

Andrew Sinclair is a novelist, historian, critic, and filmmaker. He is a founding member of Churchill College, Cambridge and has taught and traveled widely across the world. He made the award-winning film-now regarded as a classic-of Under Milk Wood, and adapted to stage Dylan's Adventures in the Skin Trade. He lives in London and is married to the writer Sonia Melchett.

From Booklist:

The most enjoyable literary biographies reflect the vigor and beauty of the subject's work, and prolific Sinclair--a historian, novelist, and director of the 1973 film version of Under Milk Wood--harmonizes quite naturally with the oceanic music of Thomas' poetry. Free to eschew the reportorial for the interpretative because Thomas' life is so thoroughly chronicled, he concentrates on seeking the source for both Thomas' glorious writing and self-destructiveness in his "divided heritage" and bifurcated temperament. Sinclair sees Thomas as a descendant of the English conquest of the Welsh bardic tradition, a man forever careening between the quiet of the country and the clamor of the city and its pubs, a puritan in bohemian's clothing, a husband and father who wanted only to be mothered, and a poet whose writing benefited tremendously from his wartime work as a documentary scriptwriter. Laced with the revelations of personal reminiscences and heretofore unpublished letters, Sinclair's fresh and vivid portrait captures the ambience of Thomas' chaotic life, the essence of his roiling spirit, and the indelible power of his timeless writing. Donna Seaman
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0312265808
• ISBN 13: 9780312265809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 251