- published: 14 Oct 2016
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime, and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39 in New York City, but had by then acquired a reputation, which he encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet".
Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1914. An undistinguished pupil, he left school at 16 and became a journalist for a short time. Although many of his works appeared in print while he was still a teenager, it was the publication of "Light breaks where no sun shines", in 1934, that caught the attention of the literary world. While living in London, Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara, whom he married in 1937. Their relationship, defined by alcoholism, was mutually destructive. In the early part of their marriage, Thomas and his family lived hand-to-mouth, settling in the Welsh fishing village of Laugharne.
Dylan Thomas — Lament When I was a windy boy and a bit And the black spit of the chapel fold, (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of women), I tiptoed shy in the gooseberry wood, The rude owl cried like a tell-tale tit, I skipped in a blush as the big girls rolled Nine-pin down on donkey's common, And on seesaw sunday nights I wooed Whoever I would with my wicked eyes, The whole of the moon I could love and leave All the green leaved little weddings' wives In the coal black bush and let them grieve. When I was a gusty man and a half And the black beast of the beetles' pews (Sighed the old ram rod, dying of bitches), Not a boy and a bit in the wick- Dipping moon and drunk as a new dropped calf, I whistled all night in the twisted flues, Midwives grew in the midnight ditches, And the sizzling s...
Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914-1953) Reading by Dylan Thomas If I Were Tickled By the Rub of Love If I were tickled by the rub of love, A rooking girl who stole me for her side, Broke through her straws, breaking my bandaged string, If the red tickle as the cattle calve Still set to scratch a laughter from my lung, I would not fear the apple nor the flood Nor the bad blood of spring. Shall it be male or female? say the cells, And drop the plum like fire from the flesh. If I were tickled by the hatching hair, The winging bone that sprouted in the heels, The itch of man upon the baby's thigh, I would not fear the gallows nor the axe Nor the crossed sticks of war. Shall it be male or female? say the fingers That chalk the walls with greet girls and their men. I would not fear the muscling-i...
The Welshman Richard Burton all over! REV. ELI JENKINS Dear Gwalia! I know there are Towns lovelier than ours, And fairer hills and loftier far, And groves more full of flowers, And boskier woods more blithe with spring And bright with birds' adorning, And sweeter bards than I to sing Their praise this beauteous morning. By Cader Idris, tempest-torn, Or Moel yr Wyddfa's glory, Carnedd Llewelyn beauty born, Plinlimmon old in story, By mountains where King Arthur dreams, By Penmaenmawr defiant, Llaregyb Hill a molehill seems, A pygmy to a giant. By Sawdde, Senny, Dovey, Dee, Edw, Eden, Aled, all, Taff and Towy broad and free, Llyfhant with its waterfall, Claerwen, Cleddau, Dulais, Daw, Ely, Gwili, Ogwr, Nedd, Small is our River Dewi, Lord, A baby on a rushy bed. By Carreg Cennen, Kin...
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The classic 1963 radio dramatization, with Richard Burton as the narrator, of Dylan Thomas's "play for voices". From their dreamy dreams to their work-day gossip, this drama traces the lives of a group of villagers in a tiny Welsh seaport. Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea on 27 October 1914, the son of a senior English master. On leaving school he worked on the South Wales Evening Post before embarking on his literary career in London. Not only a poet, he wrote short stories, film scripts, features and radio plays, the most famous being Under Milk Wood. On 9 November 1953, shortly after his thirty-ninth birthday, he collapsed and died in New York city. He is buried in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, which had become his main home since 1949. In 1982 a memorial stone to commemorate him was un...
A biography/documentary on Dylan Thomas
A reading of Dylan's monolithic villanelle on his dying father. It's more about how it makes you feel than what the words mean. "Do not go gentle into death's esteemed Vale, Elderly persons should try to hang on when the body starts to fail; Though, of course, one day it naturally transpires, That everyone's membership of the human race expires." Tim Hopkins imitating William McGonagall imitating Dylan Thomas. Here's Dylan himself reading it: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377
Dylan Thomas — Fern Hill Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley Down the rivers of the windfall light. And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means, And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold, And the sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy ...
This dog is reading the poem Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night
Here, actor Anthony Hopkins reads Dylan Thomas' poem, "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night." To learn more about "Six Centuries of Verse" or to purchase the DVD, please visit http://www.athenalearning.com
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. Comment, rate, subscribe please! ------ To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now. Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the...
This is my first experiment in the Poser program in getting a model to lip synch speech. The sound track is Dylan Thomas himself reading his (part of) his poem "Fern Hill." I had a whole beautiful video planned out in my head for this with backgrounds illustrating the poem and the speak gradually turning from an old man to a young one, but I realized it would take forever on a single home PC so I put it aside. Maybe I'll finish it someday.
Live performance recorded on December 3, 2007 at Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School in Los Angeles as part of the Monday Evening Concerts. More information at www.mondayeveningconcerts.org. Jonathan Mack, tenor Herbert Ausman, trombone Ian Carroll, trombone James Miller, trombone Russell Moss, trombone The Calder Quartet: Benjamin Jacobson, violin Andrew Bulbrook, violin Jonathan Moerschel, viola Eric Byers, cello William Kraft, conductor Cameramen: Ross Karre and Jordan Albert Video Director: Ross Karre
Fonte: https://www.spreaker.com/user/robertodeangeliss/marco-palagi-paesaggio-con-foreta-di-dyl Poesia, poesia, sembra che tu non ci sia....MARCO PALAGI "Paesaggio con Foreta" di Dylan Thomas
Listen to the full audiobook: http://hotaudiobook.com/mabk/30/en/B00NU4IZ6Y/book Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work, and exploring his lasting legacy. Edited by his granddaughter, Hannah Ellis, the book is arranged thematically and includes a wealth of material: essays from noted biographers such as David Thomas and Clive Woosnam explore Thomas's lasting legacy both at home and abroad, and Welsh poet laurete Gillian Clark reflects on the impact of the seminal "play for voices", Under Milk Wood. The book also includes an essay by poet Owen Shears and Bbc Radio 6 presenter Cerys Matthews, as well as numerous testimonies and poems from the likes of former president Jimmy Carter, Phillip Pullman, and actor...
Should lanterns shine, the holy face, Caught in an octagon of unaccustomed light, Would wither up, and any boy of love Look twice before he fell from grace. The features in their private dark Are formed of flesh, but let the false day come And from her lips the added pigments fall, The mummy cloths expose an ancient breast. I have been taught to reason by the heart, But heart, like head, leads helplessly; I have been told to reason by the pulse, And, when it quickens, alter the actions’ pace Till field and roof lie level and the same So fast I move defying time, the quiet gentleman Whose beard wags in Egyptian wind. I have heard many years of telling, And many years should see some change. The ball I threw while playing in the park Has not yet reached the ground.
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uGospel.com Talks with Dylan Thomas and Taya Smith about staring in Hillsong - Let Hope Rise.
Hillsong United's Taya Smith and Dylan Thomas talks to iSTANDtv about the difference between worship and performance and what they hope audiences will glean from the movie, HILLSONG: LET HOPE RISE.
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Broadcaster Vincent Kane interviews Thomas' widow Caitlin. originally broadcast in 1977, Caitlin Thomas (8 December 1913 -- 31 July 1994), née Macnamara, was the wife of the poet and writer Dylan Thomas
Digitized from the LP shown above, "Dylan Thomas Reading Volume 1," issued on the Caedmon label in 1964, catalogue number TC 1002. Recorded February 22, 1952 at Steinway Hall in New York. Roedd Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 Hydref 1914 - 9 Tachwedd 1953) yn fardd poblogaidd yn ysgrifennu yn Saesneg, ac yn dod o Abertawe. Cafodd ei eni a'i fagu yn rhif 5, Cwmdonkin Drive yn ardal yr Uplands. Er ei fod wedi treulio ei holl blentyndod yng Nghymru oherwydd agwedd gwrth-Gymraeg ei dad ni ddysgodd yr iaith ond fe wyddir ei fod yn hoff iawn o'i wlad. Mae'n enwog am fod yn fardd ddeiliadon ac am ei ddarlleniadau hynod o'i ddarnau. Mae hefyd yn enwog am ei alcoholiaeth. Honnodd, "An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do." Priododd Caitlin a chawsant dri o blant. Ym 1995 a...
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) ist der wohl "unbekannteste" weltberühmte Dichter aus Wales. Er war und ist Vorbild für viele Musiker wie John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan und andere Songwriter. Sein exzessives Leben und Arbeiten in Südwales, London und New York beschreibt dieser Film. Alkohol sowie ununterbrochene Geldprobleme bestimmten sein und das Leben seiner Frau Caitlin. Ländliche Idylle aber auch die Hektik im New York der 1950er-Jahre prägen die Dokumentation über den Schriftsteller. Elke Heidenreich erzählt die Geschichte des kleinen Mannes mit den großen Worten im Film des Hamburger Filmemachers Tom Krausz.
Dylan Thomas — Under Milk Wood (Part 1) read by Dylan Thomas and cast
Educational video, not monetized. 1971 LP. THE WORLD OF DYLAN THOMAS, in Poetry and Prose, with excerps from UNDER MILK WOOD. RICHARD BURTON, EMLYM WILLIAMS and other readers. SIDE ONE: 1) IN MY CRAFT OR SULLEN ART. Read by Richard Bebb 00:18 2) MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD. Emlyn Williams 01:17 From "Under Milk Wood" with First Voice: Richard Burton Second Voice: Richard Bebb Captain Cat: Hugh Griffith Mr. Mog Edwards: Dafydd Havard Myfanwy Price: Sybil Williams Produced by Douglas Cleverdon 3) POEM IN OCTOBER. Read by Richard Burton 06:32 4) From ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE. Emlyn Williams 15:07 5) DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT 18:22 SIDE TWO: 1) A VISIT TO AMERICA 24:39 Emlyn Williams 2) THE HUNCHBACK IN THE PARK. Read by Richard Burton 35:08 3) FERN HILL. Read by Richar...
#UnderMilkWood. It is spring 1953. You are sitting (preferably in the dark) in the centre of Llareggub: the butcher's is up the road on your left, the pub is a little behind you on your right... and the drowned men are flying around above your head... Join me from midnight 26th October 2014. 27th October is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dylan Thomas, author of 'Under Milk Wood'. Please download our 3D Surround Sound 108-minute complete play, as our non-commercial tribute to Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). My request is that you download, listen to and save it. And that you encourage as many of your friends & acquaintances, students, teachers, actors, directors, theatre impressarios as possible to do the same. You won’t be disappointed. There is no catch, nothing to buy. The mp3 recordin...
Caedmon TC 1132. Dylan Thomas Reading. Tracks are: Quite Early One Morning. A Visit To Grandpa's.
Dylan Thomas v RS Thomas : Brwydr Y Beirdd (Battle of the Bards) With Dylan Thomas’ birth centenary being celebrated this year is the other great Welsh poet being forgotten? R.S Thomas’ centenary didn’t get half as much attention last year. Twin-brothers and poets Damian and Jason Walford Davies will be fighting it out. Damian’s for Dylan – ‘the rock and roll poet’ and Jason’s with ‘the more sober and distant’ R.S. There’s much at stake as both brothers do their utmost to challenge the myths surrounding both bards – in ‘Thomas v Thomas’ – this battle of the heavy weight poets.
Friday, May 02, 2014, 8:00pm With Paul Muldoon, Aneirin Karadog, Martin Daws, Daniel Williams The New School: The Auditorium at West 12th Street Dylan Thomas's 1950s New York is brought to life in this multimedia tribute fusing Welsh and English spoken word, jazz, beat poetry and hip hop. Dylan Thomas toured the USA four times between 1950 and 1953, spending a lot of time in Greenwich Village, where he died on November 9th 1953. Thomas' second trip to New York in 1952 resulted in a recording of his poetry to vinyl, which was released in America by Caedmon Records. We've invited three poets, a hip hop artist, a jazz musician and an academic to sample, reinterpret and mix music that is quintessentially New York with Dylan Thomas' words. Co-sponsored by 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Ce...
When the morning was waking over the war
He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
Tell his street on its back he stopped a sun
And the craters of his eyes grew springshots and fire
When all the keys shot from the locks, and rang.
Dig no more for the chains of his grey-haired heart.
The heavenly ambulance drawn by a wound
Assembling waits for the spade's ring on the cage.
O keep his bones away from the common cart,
The morning is flying on the wings of his age
And a hundred storks perch on the sun's right hand.