The collected poems of Dylan Thomas Thomas, Dylan

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This is the definitive edition of Dylan Thomas’s poetry, containing all of the poems which he himself wished to perserve. The poet made his selection in 1952, the year before his death, and wrote especially for it the beautiful “Author’s Prologue,” addressed to “my readers, the strangers.” In 1956, the collection was augmented by the addition of the poem “Elegy,” for which sixty pages of manuscript lines were found in Thomas’s papers after his death, and which was edited by his friend, the poet Vernon Watkins. Those lines were written in memory of the poet’s father, but they speak to us also, in image and feeling, of Dylan Thomas himself. Published gy New Directions, 1957 revised reprint of the 1953 edition. Library of Congress Number: 53-7766 Red polished cloth boards, 223 pp, with dust jacket. Frontpiece photo by Marion Morehouse.