A Reference Companion to Dylan Thomas

Hugh Oaf do Wet’s sculpture of Dylan Thomas’s head with the stub of a small cigar jutting from his mouth is the black and white illustration facing the title page of James A. Davies’s book. In his Introduction Davies writes that his “reference companion offers a candid account of Thomas’s life” warts and all. The companion discusses Thomas’s work as “constantly alive to its own time”, and “offers a selective critical history”. Davies provides a reconsideration of its subject in the light of “the increasing concern with British literatures in English (Scottish, Irish, Anglo‐Welsh)”.

Following five pages of chronological summary...