Rich and original, vigorous and memorable, these 70 poems are selected from across Thomas' entire poetic career and from both his published and unpublished work. This study edition contains both the poems and a commentary upon them.

Strenously crafted and powerfully lyrical, Dylan Thomas' poetryhas bewitched generations of readers. Admired and loved for their ingenuity and potency, his poems celebrate both inner and outerlandscapes in the face of mortality and decay, human weakness andshortcomings. Thomas is regarded by many to be the greatest-ifcontroversial- Welsh poet of the twentieth century.

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 unveiled in 'Poet's Corner' in Westminster Abbey.