Dylan Thomas

Set in the author’s native Swansea in South Wales, the ten autobiographical stories in this much-loved collection chart his journey from boyhood – movingly and at times comically evoked in tales such as ‘The Peaches’ and ‘A Visit to Grandpa’s’ – to early adulthood. Along the way, in ‘Extraordinary Little Cough’, among others, the vicissitudes of adolescence and a burgeoning sexuality are explored with characteristic tenderness and candour, while ‘Where Tawe Flows’ and ‘One Warm Saturday’ affectionately document the evolution of the young writer’s literary sensibility. Young love, male friendship, death, religion – the gamut of youthful experience is here encapsulated, inflected throughout with Thomas’s typical humanity.Presented in this volume alongside the rest of the body of fiction produced by the Welsh poet in his short and turbulent life, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940), which has proven to be second in popularity only to Thomas’s masterpiece, Under Milk Wood, demonstrates that he was as much a master of prose as he was of poetry.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood. On a dark moonless night in spring, the seaside town of Llareggub sleeps. Dreams of hope and heartache unfurl, revealing the innermost desires and fears of its inhabitants. But when morning arrives, the chaotic muddle of everyday life begins again: the hardships, the gossip, the quarrels, the moments of tenderness and love, all intertwined in a spectacular chorus of voices. A much loved and celebrated modern classic, Dylan Thomas originally wrote Under Milk Wood as a radio drama and it was first broadcast by the BBC in 1954. Since then, Thomas’s masterful and humorous depiction of his characters continues to entertain and resonate with readers today.

Dylan Thomas is one of most beloved poets of the twentieth century. Richly melodious and expressive, Thomas's poems strike to the heart of eternal themes of living and dying, of childhood days lost and the vigorous beauty of nature. With restless creativity, he made the English language anew and his work inspired countless artists from Igor Stravinsky to Bob Dylan. In this new selection, Cerys Matthews brings together poems from across Thomas's career - including some of his very earliest works - to showcase the blossoming of his singular poetic voice. Full of lush imagery and unforgettable lines, this is the perfect introduction to a remarkable writer.

Walesilainen klassikko Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953) tunnetaan Suomessa erityisesti runoudestaan ja kuunnelmistaan. Kotimaassaan ja kansainvälisesti hän on myös arvostettu ”tarinoistaan”, kuten hän novellitaidettaan nimitti. Ville-Juhani Sutinen on poiminut suomentamansa valikoiman kirjailijan koko uran varrelta. Näissä novelleissa kirjailija sukeltaa etenkin lapsuuteensa Walesin rannikolle, mutta ammentaa myös aikuisikänsä kokemuksista Lontoossa. Olennaisinta novelleissa on kuitenkin kertojaminän sisäinen maailma ja sadunomainen tyyli, jolla kirjailija kuvaa milloin öistä tivolia, milloin taas sängyllä ratsastavaa isoisää.Ville-Juhani Sutiselta on aiemmin ilmestynyt vuonna 2022 Finlandia-palkitun esseeteoksen ja muun runsaan kaunokirjallisen tuotannon lisäksi suomennos Gertrude Steinin romaanista Pariisi Ranska. Nyt ilmestyvä Taiteilijan omakuva nuoruuden koiravuosilta on ensimmäinen Dylan Thomasin novellien suomennosvalikoima.

With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue? Dylan Thomas wrote some of the best-known and best-loved poems of the twentieth century, amongst them ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’, ‘Fern Hill’ and ‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower’. This edition reproduces the Collected Poems 1934-1952 which the poet authorised just before his tragically early death at the age of 39 and which contains, as he said, ‘most of the poems I have written, and all, up to the present year, I wish to preserve’. His was a precocious talent: his first poem was published nationally at the age of 18, and his first collection, 18 Poems, was published when he was just 20. In spite of his early death, he therefore left behind a substantial and significant body of work, represented here. His poems cover the span of birth to death, while at their heart is a lyrical, joyful impulse that celebrates life. The Introduction and Notes set Thomas’s poetry in their cultural (including their Welsh) context and poetic tradition, and offer ways in to a poetry which is highly crafted, and rich in language and emotion.

Runoilijana tunnettu Dylan Thomas jätti jälkensä länsimaisen kirjallisuuden historiaan myös lyhyen proosan taitajana. Thomasin tarinoissa tohtorin tytär pitää noitakoulua Walesin maaseudulla, pappi polttaa lapsensa kukkulan laella ja hiiri syö tiensä mielipuolen keittiöön. Palava lapsi -teos sisältää valikoiman Thomasin novelleja, joita ei ole aiemmin käännetty suomeksi.

Dylan Thomas on modernin runouden tärkeimpiä tekijöitä. Walesissa varttunut kirjailija mursi väkevillä, monitulkintaisilla runoillaan lyriikan perinteitä ja rakensi kielestä peilin, jossa maailma näkyy uudessa valossa. Rakkauden ensi kuumeesta -teos sisältää valikoiman Thomasin runoja, joita ei ole aiemmin käännetty suomeksi.

'It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black...'Under Milk Wood tells the story of a Welsh village during one spring day. It is populated by some of the best-loved characters in British literature. Lyrical, funny, moving, it is rooted in place but with a universality that has spoken to generations of readers. A Welsh epic, a work of poetic genius, a modern classic.'A tour de force of oral poetry which oozes word pictures and onomatopoeic musicality' Guardian

Set in the small Welsh village of Llareggub, this 'play for voices' weaves a tapestry of dreams and reality, exploring the intricate lives of its inhabitants with a blend of humour, poignancy and lyrical beauty. Thomas's mastery of language and profound understanding of the human spirit shine in this timeless classic, inviting readers into a day in the life of a community where each character's story resonates with the universal themes of love, loss and the passage of time.

Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas’s best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is his first collection solely of short stories, published in 1940. These two works show us his remarkable creative brilliance at the start and at the end of a highly productive writing life. Thomas described Under Milk Wood variously as ‘a play, an impression for voices, an entertainment out of the darkness’. It had its most famous incarnation as a radio play, broadcast in 1954, only months after its author’s death. This is the text used for that broadcast. Full of the comedy of human existence, it also strikes notes of poignancy and loss as we travel through twenty-four hours in the company of those who inhabit the ‘multifariously busy little town’. It is an affectionate vision of the ‘drinks and loves and quarrels and dreams and wishes’ of people very much like ourselves. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is a semi-autobiographical collection of stories set in and around the Swansea of Thomas’s youth. They are narratively engaging, full of a pleasure in ordinary existence, and an even greater pleasure in the power of the imagination.

Dylan Thomas föddes i Swansea i Wales 1914 och dog 1953 i New York. Sitt korta liv till trots hör han till 1900-talets mest betydelsefulla och inflytelserika poeter, vars läsningar och leverne är mytomspunna. Hans dikter är både förtätade och expansiva; de håller sig inom precisa ramar men tycks alltid överväldiga dem. Död och öppningar var den sista diktsamlingen av Thomas att publiceras under hans livstid och när den nu utkommer är det den fösta kompletta i svensk översättning. Här kommer Thomas intresse för hur livet och döde konstituerar och producerar varandra till sin fulla rätt, ofta utifrån mörka erfarenheter som bombräderna över London, men också närvarande i barndomens besjälade Wales. I dödens öppningar uppstår en glipa där vi kan ses förälskelser, barndom, natur, en förstörelse som alstrar ljus.

Dylan Thomas föddes i Swansea i Wales 1914 och dog 1953 i New York. Sitt korta liv till trots hör han till 1900-talets mest betydelsefulla och inflytelserika poeter, vars läsningar och leverne är mytomspunna. Hans dikter är både förtätade och expansiva; de håller sig inom precisa ramar men tycks alltid överväldiga dem.Thomas skrev poesi, novell, filmmanus och radiopjäser, och till hans mest klassiska verk hörIntill Mjölkhagen - ett spel för röster om ett vårdygn i den lilla walesiska kuststaden Llareggub. Vi får följa stans invånare och udda karaktärer från deras drömmar, hur de vaknar och lever sina liv till natten åter faller. Ett dygn som genomsyras av åtrå, längtan, skvaller, kärlek, minnen, död - och att bara ta sig igenom vardagen. Intill Mjölkhagen uruppfördes 1953 några månader innan Thomas bortgång, men kom i bokform ut först efter hans död. Sedan dess har den utkommit i ett flertal bokutgåvor, filmatiserats, satts upp och spelats in otaliga gånger. Med sitt flödande språk och humor är det idag ett av den brittiska litteraturens mest älskade verk.Denna utgåva av Intill Mjölkhagen är en översättning av Thomas Warburton, reviderad av Erik Andersson och Per Bergström, med nyskrivet förord av Ulf Lundell och efterord av Per Bergström.

This gathering of all Dylan Thomas's stories--ranging chronologically from the dark, almost surrealistic tales of Thomas's youth to such gloriously rumbustious celebrations of life as "A Child's Christmas in Wales" and "Adventures in the Skin Trade"--charts the progress of "The Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive" toward his mastery of the comic idiom. Here, too, are stories originally written for radio and television and, in a short appendix, the schoolboy pieces first published in the Swansea Grammar School Magazine. A high point of the collection is Thomas's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog," a vivid collage of memories from his Swansea childhood that combines the lyricism of his poetry with the sparkle and sly humor of Under Milk Wood. Also here is the fiction from Quite Early One Morning, a collection planned by Thomas shortly before his death.Altogether there are more than forty stories, providing a rich and varied literary feast and showing Dylan Thomas in all his intriguing variety-somber fantasist, joyous word-spinner, and irrepressible comedian of smalltown Wales.

In this enchanting illustrated adaptation, Cerys Matthews brings Dylan Thomas's beloved classic to new life. This is a bedtime story like no other; a book to be treasured by many generations; a book for babies and old men alike, for all that are young at heart