![]() Auden, Thomas was not concerned with discussing social and intellectual issues in his writing, which, instead, exhibited intense lyricism and highly charged emotion, thus having more in common with the Romantic tradition. The book drew from a collection of poetry notebooks that Thomas had written years earlier, as would many of his most popular books. In 1934, when Thomas was twenty, he moved to London, won the Poets’ Corner Prize, and published his first book, 18 Poems (The Fortune Press), in the same year to great acclaim. It was during this time, in his late teens, that Thomas wrote more than half of his collected poems. ![]() By December 1932, he left his job at the Post and decided to concentrate on his poetry full-time. Thomas dropped out of school at sixteen to become a junior reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. ![]() His father was an English literature professor at the local grammar school and would often recite William Shakespeare, fortifying Thomas’s love for the rhythmic ballads of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. ![]() Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in Swansea, South Wales. ![]()
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