Reading Dylan Thomas

Reading Dylan Thomas attends in detail to the problems and pleasures of deciphering Thomas in the twenty-first century, teasing out his debts and effects, tracing his influence on later artists, and suggesting ways to understand his own idiosyncratic reading practices.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Notes on Contributors
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Abbreviations
pp xi-xii
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Introduction: Beyond Milk Wood
pp 1-12
- By Edward Allen
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I - Bodies and Selves
pp 13-14
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1 - Wave Power: The Effacement of the Caesura in Dylan Thomas’s Poetry
pp 15-35
- By John Wilkinson
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2 - Nosing Around: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
pp 36-48
- By Rod Mengham
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3 - Staircases, Fires; Bombs, Milk, Wombs, Wax, Hangmen, Sleep, Rabbits, Stew; a Mars Bar, Pin-Points; Lovely Peaches
pp 49-70
- By Deborah Bowman
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4 - Dylan Thomas: ‘On out of Sound’
pp 71-88
- By Peter Robinson
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II - Science and Media
pp 89-90
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5 - ‘Lamp-Posts and High-Volted Fruits’: Scientific Discourse in the Work of Dylan Thomas
pp 91-109
- By John Goodby
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6 - Dylan Thomas on the BBC Eastern Service
pp 110-137
- By Edward Allen
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7 - Film, Gramophones and the Noise of Landscape in Dylan Thomas and Lynette Roberts
pp 138-154
- By Zoë Skoulding
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III - Confluences and Influences
pp 155-156
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8 - Trouble at the Explosive Plant: Ceri Richards and Dylan Thomas
pp 157-178
- By Leo Mellor
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9 - ‘The verticals of Adam’: Dylan Thomas and Apocalyptic Modernism
pp 179-196
- By James Keery
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10 - Dylan Thomas and American Poetry: ‘a kind of Secret, but Powerful, Leaven’
pp 197-214
- By Philip Coleman
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11 - Fine contrary excess’: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Thomas’s Northern Irish Afterlives
pp 215-232
- By Tom Walker
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About Time: A Modernist Coda for Thomas
pp 233-240
- By Vincent Sherry
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Index
pp 241-252
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-x

Abbreviations
pp xi-xii

Plate Section

Introduction: Beyond Milk Wood
pp 1-12

I - Bodies and Selves
pp 13-14

1 - Wave Power: The Effacement of the Caesura in Dylan Thomas’s Poetry
pp 15-35

2 - Nosing Around: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
pp 36-48

3 - Staircases, Fires; Bombs, Milk, Wombs, Wax, Hangmen, Sleep, Rabbits, Stew; a Mars Bar, Pin-Points; Lovely Peaches
pp 49-70

4 - Dylan Thomas: ‘On out of Sound’
pp 71-88

II - Science and Media
pp 89-90

5 - ‘Lamp-Posts and High-Volted Fruits’: Scientific Discourse in the Work of Dylan Thomas
pp 91-109

6 - Dylan Thomas on the BBC Eastern Service
pp 110-137

7 - Film, Gramophones and the Noise of Landscape in Dylan Thomas and Lynette Roberts
pp 138-154

III - Confluences and Influences
pp 155-156

8 - Trouble at the Explosive Plant: Ceri Richards and Dylan Thomas
pp 157-178

9 - ‘The verticals of Adam’: Dylan Thomas and Apocalyptic Modernism
pp 179-196

10 - Dylan Thomas and American Poetry: ‘a kind of Secret, but Powerful, Leaven’
pp 197-214

11 - Fine contrary excess’: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Thomas’s Northern Irish Afterlives
pp 215-232

About Time: A Modernist Coda for Thomas
pp 233-240

Index
pp 241-252

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