Dylan Thomas: A New Life

In this riveting account of one of the twentiethcentury’s most brilliant and contradictoryfigures, now available again to celebrateThomas’s 100th birthday, acclaimed biographerAndrew Lycett peels back the layers of storythat have accumulated around Dylan Thomas.
When he died in New York in 1953, Thomaswas only thirty-nine years old, and the mythssoon took hold: he became the Keats and theByron of his generation—the romantic poetwho died too young, his potential unfulfilled.Making masterful use of original material fromarchives and personal papers, Lycett describesthe development of the young poet, bringsinvaluable new insights to Thomas’s youthfulpoetry and the themes that continued toappear in his work, and unearth fascinating details about the poet's many affairs and his tempestuous marriage to his passionate Irish wife, Caitlin.
The result is a poignant yet stirring portrait of the chaos of Thomas's personal life and a welcome re-evaluation of the lyricism and experimentalism of his poetry, plays, and short stories.