The Essential Dylan Thomas

Explore the profound and imaginative world of Dylan Thomas in this unique collection, bringing together the full spectrum of his literary brilliance. From the mesmerizing verses of his poetry to the enchanting narratives of his prose works, this anthology provides an immersive journey through the creative genius of one of the 20th century's most celebrated poets.

This edition includes:

Poetry:

I see the boys of summer

When once the twilight locks no longer

Before I knocked

My hero bares his nerves

Our eunuch dreams

When, like a running grave

In the beginning

I fellowed sleep

I dreamed my genesis

My world is pyramid

I, in my intricate image

This bread I break

Incarnate devil

Today, this insect

The seed-at-zero

Here in this spring

Do you not father me

Out of the sighs

Was there a time

Now

Why east wind chills

A grief ago

Ears in the turrets hear

How soon the servant sun

Foster the light

Should lanterns shine

I have longed to move away

Find meat on bones

Grief thief of time

And death shall have no dominion

Then was my neophyte

Altarwise by owl-light

We lying by seasand

O make me a mask

The spire cranes

After the funeral

Not from this anger

How shall my animal

On no work of words

A saint about to fall

'If my head hurt a hair's foot'

Twenty-four years

The conversation of prayers

Poem in October

This side of the truth

To Others than You

Love in the Asylum

Unluckily for a death

Into her lying down head

Do not go gentle into that good night

Deaths and Entrances

A Winter's Tale

Plays:

Under Milk Wood

Prose Works:

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

Adventures in the Skin Trade

A Child's Christmas in Wales

The School for Witches

The Burning Baby

Quite Early One Morning

The Mouse and the Woman

A Prospect of the Sea

After the Fair

The Enemies

The Tree

The True Story

The Dress

The Visitor

The Vest

The Orchards

The End of the River

The Lemon

The Horse's Ha

The Holy Six

The Map of Love

In the Direction of the Beginning

Prologue to an Adventure

An Adventure from a Work in Progress

Holiday Memory

Gaspar, Melchior, Balthasar

The Followers

In the Garden…