In my youth he was politely ignored at both school and university
(Leavis disliked him intensely, I believe), but the BBC 3rd programme
was always broadcasting him reading self & others, plus a schoolmate had
a 45 rpm of him reading his own stuff; as a reader, he was the British
equivalent of Klaus Kinski, whose recordings of ghastly would-be
lebenshungrige Villon imitations (ish bin zoh vealed nakh dyenem
aired-bare moond) were played at parties in the later 60s with much
oohing & aahing. But DT's "When I was young & easy" does sound rather
good played at 33 rpm...
mj
Roger Day wrote:
>I kindof missed the Movement. Larkin was taught in school, but that
>was about it. Come to think I came to DT (but not the DT's) myself,
>rather than through school, with the exception of Under Milkwood. Is
>DT's poetry taught in school at all?
>
>Roger
>
>On 8/25/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>
>>Last time I "appreciated" Dylan Thomas was when I was 14-15. And "The
>>Movement" assault on DT convinced me that rereading him would do me no
>>good. David Jones was much more useful, and of course, Ezra Pound, whose
>>work even when I first encountered it at age 15-16, quickly eclipsed DT's.
>>
>>Barry Alpert
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:14:40 +0200, Anny Ballardini
>><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>
>>
>>>I love Dylan Thomas, and the anguish I perceive made it difficult for me to
>>>read him at times. And I think I am with everybody here in appreciating
>>>
>>>
>>him,
>>
>>
>>>Roger and Kasper included.
>>>
>>>
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--
We went down to the sea
all the poets together
and gave ourselves up to the waters
in various positions of loss:
Nathaniel Tarn
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