Dylan Thomas

"Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea."

Dylan Thomas was a Welsh Poetry, born in 1914 and dead by 1953. His poetry is notable for its tendency towards obscurity, its gothic, surreal tone and its rhythmic, infectious cadence. His most famous poem is the Trope Namer for Do Not Go Gentle.

His books available today include...

 * Collected Poems: Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
 * A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog: Following the model of James Joyce's Dubliners (although Thomas insisted he never read a word of Joyce), this autobiographical collection of short stories tracks an Author Avatar as he navigates the turmoil of adolescence and disappointment.
 * Quite Early One Morning: A posthumous collection of fictions, interviews and criticis ms. Includes what is arguably his greatest story, "A Child's Christmas in Wales".
 * Under Milk Wood: A humorous play, it accounts a strange day in a coastal Welsh town.
 * Adventures in the Skin Trade: A slightly surreal novella about a young man trying to become a publisher in Cardiff.
 * Rebecca's Daughters: A radio play about the eponymous criminal group.

His life and work give examples of the following tropes...

 * The Alcoholic: Drink would eventually become his undoing.
 * Infant Immortality: Purposefully averted. A handful of his poems (A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London and The Conversation of Prayer, to name a couple) deal with dead children.
 * Religious Horror: Much of his poetry is grotesque, an effect he achieved by juxtaposing religious imagery with descriptions of filth and decay.
 * Slap Slap Kiss: He would sometimes have to restrain his wife Caitlin when she grew rowdy at social functions.