Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog: Stories
The Young Dog of the title is of course Thomas himself, and this volume of autobiographical stories by the great modern poet, who died at 39 while on his third lecture tour in the United States, shows his waggish humor at its best, his exuberance and verbal magic in spectacular display. It also shows him a spinner of tales and a creator of memorable characters. There is the grandfather who marches off in his best clothes to be buried in the next town, the sardonic senior reporter on a provincial newspaper, servant girls who know how to deal triumphantly with a fast-talking dandy, a twenty-year-old farmer preaching wildly to boys in a deserted…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2044-6
- EAN: 9780811220446
- Produktnummer: 34246769
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1968
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'003 KB
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The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His work, noted for its lush metaphors, musicality, and playfulness within traditional forms, was largely responsible for modernizing poetic verse.
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