Dylan Thomas : An Original Language

Barbara Hardy

ISBN 10: 0820322075 / ISBN 13: 9780820322070

Published by University Of Georgia Press Aug 2000, 2000

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Neuware - Dylan Thomas's expressive, highly imaginative recreation of forms and language reveals his inner self and portrays his time with a distinction that has earned him renown as one of the great individualists of modern art. In this contemplative, creatively focused study of selected poems and works of prose, Barbara Hardy emphasizes Thomas's creative achievements and high intelligence and discusses the influences of his regional identity, his modernist style, his reflexive awareness and use of language, and his themes of art and the natural world.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dylan Thomas : An Original Language
• Publisher: University Of Georgia Press Aug 2000
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820322075
• ISBN 13: 9780820322070
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 127H x 19D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 127 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 372 grams

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Synopsis

Dylan Thomas's expressive, highly imaginative re-creation of forms and language intimately portrays his inner self and his time, earning him renown as one of the "great individualists of modern art." In this contemplative, focused study of poems, stories and other works by Thomas, including Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and Under Milk Wood, Barbara Hardy emphasizes his creative achievements and high intelligence, analyzing his regional identity; response to other writers, especially James Joyce; modernist style; subject matter; use of language; and themes of art and the natural world.

Thomas, a Welsh writer, never a nationalist, put into his writing a subtle response to regional landscape, particular people and places, and social context, including the 1930s depression, rural poverty, and war. His poetry and prose are passionate, sensuous, and artistically self-aware. The poetry is especially congenial in its imaginative celebration of greenness―literal, metaphorical, and political. To adapt the words of Charles Lamb, the poet is in "love with this green earth."

Hardy describes Thomas as a resourceful "language-changer" who, like Shakespeare, Dickens, Hopkins, and Joyce, transforms the English language. Through writing so uniquely inventive that it alters the reader's perception of language, Thomas left us with works that are as fresh and relevant to today's world as they were at their debut.

About the Author

BARBARA HARDY is a professor emeritus of English Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, and is Honorary Professor of English at the University of Wales, Swansea. She has written extensively on the English novel and has published books on Austen, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot, James, and theory of narrative and lyric, in addition to a novel, London Lovers, and a memoir, Swansea Girl.