Research Catalog

Title

The poems of Dylan Thomas / edited with an introduction and notes by Daniel Jones ; with a preface by Dylan Thomas.

Author

Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953

Publication

New York : New Directions, 2003.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Jones, Daniel, 1912-1993.
• New Directions Publishing.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xxix, 320 p. : port.; 24 cm. +

Summary

The highlight of this complete edition of poems is a CD containing vintage recordings of Thomas reading eight of his works in his famous "Welsh-singing" style.

Uniform Title

Poems

Alternative Title

Poems

Subject

Poets, Welsh > 20th century

Genre/Form

Compact discs.

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. I know this vicious minute's hour -- 2. Cool, oh no cool -- 3. The air you breathe -- 4. Cabaret -- 5. Sometimes the sky's too bright -- 6. Rain cuts the place we tread -- 7. The morning, space for Leda -- 8. The spire cranes -- 9. Time enough to rot -- 10. It's not in misery but in oblivion -- 11. The natural day and night -- 12. Conceive these images in air -- 13. The neophyte, baptized in smiles -- 14. To be encompassed by the brilliant earth -- 15. Although through my bewildered way -- 16. High on a hill -- 17. Since, on a quiet night -- 18. They are the only dead who did not love -- 19. Little Problem -- 20. When you have ground such beauty down to dust -- 21. There's plenty in the world -- 22. Written for a Personal Epitaph -- 23. Never to reach the oblivious dark -- 24. Children of darkness got no wings -- 25. Too long, skeleton -- 26. Nearly summer -- 27. Youth Calls to Age -- 28. Being but men -- 29. Out of the sighs -- 30. Upon your held-out hand --^
• 31. Walking in gardens -- 32. Now the thirst parches lip and tongue -- 33. Lift up your face -- 34. Let it be known -- 35. The midnight road -- 36. With windmills turning wrong directions -- 37. The gossipers -- 38. Before the gas fades -- 39. Was there a time -- 40. 'We who are young are old' -- 41. Out of a war of wits -- 42. Their faces shone under some radiance -- 43. I have longed to move away -- 44. To follow the fox -- 45. The ploughman's gone -- 46. Poet: 1935 -- 47. Light, I know, treads the ten million stars -- 48. And death shall have no dominion -- 49. Out of the Pit -- 50. We lying by seasand -- 51. No man believes -- 52. Why east wind chills -- 53. Greek Play in a Garden -- 54. Praise to the architects -- 55. Here in this spring -- 56. We have the fairy tales by heart -- 57. 'Find meat on bones' -- 58. Ears in the turrets hear -- 59. The Woman Speaks -- 60. Shall gods be said to thump the clouds -- 61. The hand that signed the paper --^
• 62. Let for one moment a faith statement -- 63. You are the ruler of this realm of flesh -- 64. Before I knocked -- 65. We see rise the secret wind -- 66. Take the needles and the knives -- 67. Not forever shall the Lord of the red hail -- 68. Before we mothernaked fall -- 69. The sun burns the morning -- 70. My hero bares his nerves -- 71. Song -- 72. Through these lashed rings -- 73. The force that through the green fuse drives the flower -- 74. From love's first fever to her plague -- 75. The almanac of time -- 76. All that I owe the fellows of the grave -- 77. Here lie the beasts -- 78. Light breaks where no sun shines -- 79. A Letter to My Aunt Discussing the Correct Approach to Modern Poetry -- 80. See, says the lime -- 81. This bread I break -- 82. Your pain shall be a music -- 83. A process in the weather of the heart -- 84. Our eunuch dreams -- 85. Where once the waters of your face -- 86. I see the boys of summer -- 87. In the beginning --^
• 88. If I were tickled by the rub of love -- 89. Twelve -- 90. When once the twilight locks on longer -- 91. Especially when the October wind -- 92. When, like a running grave -- 93. I fellowed sleep -- 94. I dreamed my genesis -- 95. My World is Pyramid -- 96. All all and all the dry worlds lever -- 97. Grief thief of time -- 98. I, in my intricate image -- 99. Do you not father me -- 100. How soon the servant sun -- 101. A grief ago -- 102. Should lanterns shine -- 103. Altarwise by owl-light -- 104. Incarnate devil -- 105. Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo's month -- 106. Foster the light -- 107. Today, this insect -- 108. The seed-at-zero -- 109. Now -- 110. Then was my neophyte -- 111. It is the sinners' dust-tongued bell -- 112. I make this in a warring absence -- 113. O make me a mask -- 114. Not from this anger -- 115. How shall my animal -- 116. After the funeral -- 117. O Chatterton -- 118. When all my five and country senses see --^
• 119. The tombstone told when she died -- 120. On no work of words -- 121. I, the first named -- 122. A saint about to fall -- 123. Twenty-four years -- 124. The Molls -- 125. Once it was the colour of saying -- 126. Because the pleasure-bird whistles -- 127. 'If my head hurt a hair's foot' -- 128. To Others than You -- 129. Unluckily for a death -- 130. Paper and sticks -- 131. When I woke -- 132. Once below a time -- 133. There was a saviour -- 134. The Countryman's Return -- 135. Into her lying down head -- 136. Request to Leda -- 137. Deaths and Entrances -- 138. On a Wedding Anniversary -- 139. Ballad of the Long-legged Bait -- 140. Love in the Asylum -- 141. On the Marriage of a Virgin -- 142. The hunchback in the park -- 143. Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man Aged a Hundred -- 144. Ceremony after a Fire Raid -- 145. Last night I dived my beggar arm -- 146. Poem -- 147. Poem in October -- 148. New Quay -- 149. Vision and Prayer -- 150. Holy Spring --^
• 151. A Winter's Tale -- 152. A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London -- 153. This side of the truth -- 154. The conversation of prayers -- 155. Lie still, sleep becalmed -- 156. Fern Hill -- 157. In my craft or sullen art -- 158. In Country Sleep -- 159. Over Sir John's hill -- 160. In the White Giant's Thigh -- 161. Lament -- 162. Do not go gentle into that good night -- 163. Poem on His Birthday -- App. I. Unfinished Poems -- 164. In Country Heaven -- 165. Elegy -- App. II. Early Poems -- 166. The Song of the Mischievous Dog -- 167. Forest Picture -- 168. Missing -- 169. In Dreams -- 170. Idyll of Unforgetfulness -- 171. Of Any Flower -- 172. Clown in the Moon -- 173. To a Slender Wind -- 174. The Elm -- 175. The Oak -- 176. The Pine -- 177. To the Spring-Spirit -- 178. Triolet -- 179. You shall not despair -- 180. My river -- 181. We will be conscious of our sanctity -- 182. I have come to catch your voice -- 183. When your furious motion --^
• 184. No thought can trouble my unwholesome pose -- 185. No, pigeon, I'm too wise -- 186. Woman on Tapestry -- 187. Pillar breaks -- 188. It's light that makes the intervals -- 189. Let me escape -- 190. The rod can lift its twining head -- 191. Admit the sun -- A Note on Verse-Patterns -- A Chronology -- A Note on this Revised Edition.

ISBN

0811215415 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2002155790

OCLC

51266103

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library