Dylan Thomas in America

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Here is Dylan Thomas in all his maddening humanity: the houseguest of your nightmares who will steal your shirts, the visitor to a women'scollege who becomes embarrassingly excited by the sight of girls in casual dress.

Brinnin chronicles all of Thomas's excesses including the poet's fatal marriage to alcohol.This book should be kept as a companionto Constantine Fitzgibbon's classic biography. In the end Brinnin-and the reader-forgive Dylan Thomas all his childishness because of the tidal waves of eloquence that arise from the Welsh poet's genius. Thomas is so overpowering a figure that one almost doesn't notice how brilliantly Brinnin has rendered him,as well as the social milieu of 1950's America.

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