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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas published his first book, 18 Poems, before his twenty-first birthday. Like T. S. Eliot, Hart Crane, and several other modern poets, Thomas began as an extraordinarily complex writer and, by

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Featured Poem

Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower, The

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What book, published in 1930 by Faber, was so well-thumbed by the sixteen-year-old Dylan Thomas that he had to tape the pages together?

Answer

W.H. Auden's first book, Poems . Auden's editor at Faber was T. S. Eliot.

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