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“None of us today want to read poems which we can understand as easily as the front page of the Express.”

Defending complexity and mystery in modern poetry · Letter to Glyn Jones, March 1934

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Dylan Thomas

27 October 1914–9 November 1953

Dylan Marlais Thomas stands as one of the most distinctive and influential voices in modern poetry, a writer whose work blazed with lyrical intensity and whose life burned with equal fervor. Born into the Welsh landscape that would forever shape his imagination, Thomas created a body of work that transcended national…

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