Thomas, Dylan(dĭlˈən), 1914–53, Welsh poet, b. Swansea. An extraordinarily individualistic writer, Thomas is ranked among the great 20th-century poets. He grew up in Swansea, the son of a teacher, but left school at 17 to become a journalist and moved to London two years later...
Thomas was first sent to a private school called, Mrs. Hole’s dame school. It was very near to his home and Thomas considered the experience to have been a pleasant one. He was later enrolled at Swansea Grammar School for boys in Mount Pleasant. It was here that his father taught Engl...
(Over the years he gave various explanations of the origin of his last name; one was that originally it was "Dillon" after the popular television western lawman, and only later did its spelling change to reflect his admiration for the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas.) In 1960 he moved to New ...
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狄兰·托马斯(1914-1953)，生于1914年10月27日，南威尔士的天鹅海。1931年，16岁的托马斯就辍学做了《天鹅海晚报》的记者，同时在当地一家半专业戏院演出了一年多，为今后的写作生涯做准备。1934年，托马斯出版了个人首本诗集，并移居伦敦，三年后，他同凯特琳·麦可耐马拉结婚，并有了三个孩子。期间他...
John Lennonreceived a letter from a pupil at Quarry Bank High School, which he had attended. The writer mentioned that the English master was making his class analyseThe Beatles‘ lyrics (Lennon wrote an answer, dated 1 September 1967, which was auctioned by Christie’s of London in 1992)....
Michael Bashaw, Greg Brown, Rose Costello, Michelle Cross, Bri Custer, Bess Cutler, Nathan Danilczuk, Thomas Dougherty, Alicia Ethridge, Linda Gerson, Tim Gilbert, Toby Gordon, Serena Hallowell, Sherrill Hannon, Jamesley Juice, Eric Katzman, Tim Lawrence, Chayanne Lawrence, Aaron Mason, Roseann...
Bob Dylan, b. 1941. The songwriter and singer was born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, and spent much of his boyhood in Hibbing, near the Canadian border. He named himself after Dylan Thomas. The lyrics in three of his record albums from the mid-1960s ––Bringing it All Back ...
‘smiling and knitting and bleating’ as they leap the fences on the hill; Mrs Willy Nilly dreams she is being spanked by her teacher for being late to school. The surrealism of the language encouraged Blake to depict the passages as literally as possible in these 26 works. Where Thomas ...