Who is dylan thomas
Synopsis
Dylan Thomas was born October 27, 1914 in Swansea, Wales and died November 9, 1953 in New York City, United States. He is a famous poet and also wrote short stories and scripts for films and the radio. He is most well-known for his poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion". Growing up, Thomas’ father was an English teacher who taught English literature. Thomas's first poem was published in his school's magazine and later, he became its editor. At the age of 16, Thomas had left school to become a journalist for the local newspaper. Many of his works appeared in print while he was a teenager and, it was the publication of "Light breaks where no sun shines", in 1934, that caught the attention of the literary world. In his early life, he assimilated a reputation, which he encouraged, as a roistering, drunken and doomed poet. He became popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death in New York City.
Early Years |
In 1931, at the age of 16, Thomas left school to become a junior reporter at the South Wales Daily Post. His position with the Post didn't last long, though, as he quit in December 1932 and turned his attention away from journalism and back to poetry, now a full-time pursuit. Remarkably, about two-thirds of Thomas's oeuvre is from his late teens.
Marriage and Later
Thomas married Caitlin Macnamara in 1937, and the couple went on to have two sons and a daughter. But while his fame was rising in literary circles, his business sense was lacking, so he and his family lived in relative poverty. To support his family, Thomas worked for the BBC and as a film scriptwriter during World War II (he was exempted from fighting due to a lung condition), but he continued to struggled financially—unable even to keep up with the taxes that he owed.