The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
The Original Edition
The poems Thomas chose to keep, in the order he settled on, including the villanelle he wrote as his father lay dying.
Thomas published relatively little and revised obsessively, and this gathers the poems he chose to keep, arranged in the order he settled on. It holds the work that made his reputation, including Fern Hill and the villanelle written as his father was dying. Paul Muldoon introduces the edition, and these poems reward reading aloud more than most.
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