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Born in October 27, 1914 / Died in November 9, 1953 / United Kingdom / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Eighteen Poems, Sunday Referee and Parton Bookshop, 1934.
  • Twenty-five Poems, Dent, 1936.
  • New Poems, New Directions, 1943.
  • Deaths and Entrances, Dent, 1946, revised edition edited with notes by Walford Davies, illustrated by John Piper, Gwasg Gregynog, 1984.
  • Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas, New Directions, 1946, revised edition edited by J. P. Harries, Heinemann, 1970.
  • Twenty-six Poems, Dent, 1950.
  • In Country Sleep and Other Poems, Dent, 1952.
  • Collected Poems, 1934-1952, Dent, 1952, published as The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, New Directions, 1953, reprinted, 1971, reprinted as Collected Poems, 1934-1952, Dent, 1984.
  • The Colour of Saying: An Anthology of Verse Spoken by Dylan Thomas, edited by Ralph Maud and Aneirin Talfan Davies, Dent, 1963, published as Dylan Thomas's Choice, New Directions, 1964.
  • Collected Poems, Dutton, 1966.
  • Poem in October, Coach House Press, 1970.
  • The Poems of Dylan Thomas, New Directions, 1971, revised edition, Dent, 1978.
  • Poems, edited by Daniel Jones, Dent, 1974.
  • Selected Poems of Dylan Thomas, Dent, 1975.
  • The Green Fuse: A Collection of Poems and Wood Engravings, Tairiku No Taiwa Sha (Tokyo, Japan), 1982.
  • Wales in His Arms: Dylan Thomas's Choice of Welsh Poetry, University of Wales Press (Cardiff, Wales), 1994.
  • Dylan Thomas, the Filmscripts, J. M. Dent (London, England), 1995.
  • Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952, New Directions (New York, NY), 2003.

Poems represented in anthologies; contributor of poems to periodicals, including Living Age, Poetry, New English Weekly, and New Verse.

SHORT STORIES, ESSAYS, AND OTHER WRITINGS

  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (autobiographical short stories; includes "Peaches" and "One Warm Saturday"), New Directions, 1940, reprinted, 1956.
  • Quite Early One Morning, preface and notes by Aneirin Talfan Davies, Dent, 1954, enlarged edition, New Directions, 1954.
  • A Child's Christmas in Wales, New Directions, 1955, new edition illustrated with woodcuts, 1959, Godine, 1984.
  • A Prospect of the Sea, and Other Stories and Prose Writings, edited by Daniel Jones, Dent, 1955.
  • Adventures in the Skin Trade, and Other Stories, New Directions, 1955 (published in England as Adventures in the Skin Trade, with a foreword by Vernon Watkins, Putnam [London], 1955, new edition with drawings by Ceri Richards, 1982).
  • The Collected Prose of Dylan Thomas, New Directions, 1969.
  • Early Prose Writings of Dylan Thomas, edited by Walford Davies, Dent, 1971, reprinted, 1983, New Directions, 1972.
  • The Collected Stories, Dent, 1983, New Directions, 1984.
  • Eight Stories, New Directions, 1993.
  • The Collected Letters, edited by Paul Ferris, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1985.
  • On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts, edited by Ralph Maud, New Directions (New York, NY), 1992.
  • Dylan Thomas, the Filmscripts, edited by John Ackerman (J. M. Dent (London, England), 1995.
  • The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas, Sourcebooks Casablanca (Naperville, IL), 2001.

Short stories represented in anthologies, including Welsh Short Stories, Faber, 1937, and Short Story Study: A Critical Anthology, edited by A. Smith and W. H. Mason, Edward Arnold, 1961. Contributor of short stories and essays to periodicals, including New English Weekly, New World Writing, Life and Letters Today, Janus, Contemporary Poetry and Prose, Delta, and Mademoiselle.

POETRY AND PROSE COLLECTIONS

  • The World I Breathe, New Directions, 1939.
  • The Map of Love, Dent, 1939.
  • Miscellany: Poems, Stories, Broadcasts, Dent 1963, reprinted as Miscellany One: Poems, Stories, Broadcasts, 1974.
  • Miscellany Two: A Visit to Grandpa's, and Other Stories and Poems, Dent, 1966.
  • Miscellany Three: Poems and Stories, Dent, 1978.

LETTERS AND NOTEBOOKS

  • Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas, edited by Constantine FitzGibbon, Dent, 1956, published as Selected Letters, New Directions, 1967.
  • Letters to Vernon Watkins, edited with introduction by Vernon Watkins, New Directions, 1957.
  • The Notebooks of Dylan Thomas, edited by Ralph Maud, New Directions, 1967 (published in England as Poet in the Making: The Notebooks of Dylan Thomas, Dent, 1968).
  • Twelve More Letters, Daedalus Press, 1969.
  • Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas, edited by Paul Ferris, Macmillan, 1985.

FILM SCRIPTS

  • The Doctor and the Devils (based on a short story by Donald Taylor), New Directions, 1953, published with an introduction by John Ormond, Time, 1964.
  • The Beach of Falesa (based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson), Stein & Day, 1963, 2nd edition, 1983.
  • Twenty Years A-Growing (based on a short story by Maurice O'Sullivan), Dent, 1964.
  • The Doctor and the Devils, and Other Scripts, New Directions, 1966.
  • Me and My Bike (unfinished screenplay; introduction by Sydney Box, illustrations by Leonora Box), McGraw, 1965.
  • Dylan Thomas: The Filmscripts, edited by John Ackerman, Dent (London), 1995.

Also author or co-author of numerous educational film scripts for the British Ministry of Information.

SOUND RECORDINGS

  • Selections from the Writings of Dylan Thomas (five records), Caedmon, 1952-60.
  • Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices (two records), Argo, 1954.
  • An Evening with Dylan Thomas Reading His Own and Other Poems, Caedmon, 1963.
  • Dylan Thomas Reading His Complete Recorded Poetry (two records), Caedmon, 1963.
  • Dylan Thomas Reading from His Own Work, Caedmon, 1971.
  • In Country Heaven: The Evolution of a Poem, Caedmon, 1971.
  • The Complete Recorded Stories and Humorous Essays, Caedmon, 1972.
  • Return Journey to Swansea (radio play; performed by Thomas and a supporting cast), Caedmon, 1972.
  • Dylan Thomas Reads from His Adventures in the Skin Trade and Two Poems, Caedmon, 1975.

OTHER

  • Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices (first produced in New York City at the Young Men's/Young Women's Hebrew Association, May 14, 1953), New Directions, 1954, new edition, with preface and musical settings by Daniel Jones, published as Under Milk Wood: A Play in Two Acts, 1958, new edition, Dent, 1962.
  • Conversation about Christmas, privately printed, 1954.
  • Quite Early One Morning: Broadcasts by Dylan Thomas, with preface and notes by Ichiro Nishizaki and Nobutko Suto, Hokuseido Press (Tokyo), 1956.
  • Rebecca's Daughters, Little, Brown, 1965.
  • Two Tales: Me and My Bike [and] Rebecca's Daughters, illustrated by Leonora Box, Sphere, 1968.
  • (With John Davenport) The Death of the King's Canary (novel), introduction by Constantine FitzGibbon, Hutchinson, 1977.
  • On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts, edited by Ralph Maud, New Directions, 1992.