Dylan Thomas: A New Life

by Andrew Lycett

  444 with a week’s abstince: Miller, Timebends.

  446 ‘the best part of a quarter of a million pounds’: Wynford Vaughan Thomas to CT, draft, n.d., NLW.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  DYLAN THOMAS’S OWN WORKS, WITH DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION

  18 Poems, Sunday Referee and Parton Bookshop, 1934

  Twenty-five Poems, Dent, 1936

  The Map of Love, Dent, 1939

  The World I Breathe, New Directions, Norfolk, Ct, 1939

  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Dent, 1940

  New Poems, New Directions, Norfolk, Ct, 1943

  Deaths and Entrances, Dent, 1946

  Selected Writings, New Directions, New York, 1946

  Collected Poems 1934–1952, Dent, 1952

  In Country Sleep and Other Poems, New Directions, New York, 1952

  The Doctor and the Devils, Dent, 1953

  The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, New Directions, New York, 1953

  Quite Early One Morning, Dent, 1954

  Under Milk Wood, Dent, 1954

  A Prospect of the Sea, ed. Daniel Jones, Dent, 1955

  Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories, Putnam, 1955

  Letters to Vernon Watkins, Vernon Watkins (ed.), Dent and Faber & Faber, 1957

  The Beach of Falesa, Cape, 1964

  Twenty Years A-Growing, Dent, 1964

  Rebecca’s Daughters, Triton, 1965

  Me and My Bike, Triton, 1965

  Selected Letters, Constantine FitzGibbon (ed.), Dent, 1966

  The Doctor and the Devils, and Other Scripts, New Directions, New York, 1966

  Poet in the Making: The Notebooks of Dylan Thomas, Ralph Maud (ed.), Dent, 1968

  Early Prose Writings, Walford Davies (ed.), Dent, 1971

  The Poems, Daniel Jones (ed.), Dent, 1971

  Selected Poems, Walford Davies (ed.), Dent, 1974

  The Death of the King’s Canary (with John Davenport), Penguin, 1978

  Collected Stories, Dent, 1983

  The Collected Letters, Paul Ferris (ed.), Dent, 1985: new edition 2000

  Collected Poems 1934–1953, Walford Davies and Ralph Maud (eds), Dent, 1988

  The Notebook Poems 1930–1934, Ralph Maud (ed.), Dent, 1989

  The Broadcasts, Ralph Maud (ed.), Dent, 1991

  Letter to Loren Jeff Towns (ed.), Salubrious Press, Swansea, 1993

  The Filmscripts, John Ackerman (ed.), Dent, 1995

  Under Milk Wood, Walford Davies and Ralph Maud (eds), ‘The Definitive Edition’, Dent, 1995

  BOOKS CONSULTED

  John Ackerman, Welsh Dylan, Granada, 1980: A Dylan Thomas Companion, Macmillan, 1991

  Peter Ackroyd, T.S. Eliot, Hamish Hamilton, 1984

  Conrad Aiken, Selected Letters, Joseph Killorin (ed.), Yale University Press, 1978

  Kingsley Amis, Letters, Zachary Leader (ed.), HarperCollins, 2000; Memoirs Hutchinson 1991

  Noel Anna, Our Age, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990

  John Arlott, Basingstoke Boy, Collins Willow, 1990

  Tim Arlott, John Arlott, Andre Deutsch, 1994

  Michael Bakewell, Fitzrovia: London’s Bohemia, National Portrait Gallery, 1999

  John Bayley, The Romantic Survival, Constable, 1957

  John Betjeman, Letters, Volume 1, Candida Lycett Green (ed.), Methuen, 1994

  Elizabeth Bishop, One Art Letters, Robert Giroux (ed.), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994

  Phyllis Bowen, The Baker’s Daughter, Merton Priory Press, 1992

  Gordon Bowker, Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry, HarperCollins, 1993

  Harvey Breit, The Writer Observed, Alvin Redman, 1957

  John Malcolm Brinnin, Dylan Thomas in America, Dent, 1956

  Anatole Broyard, Kafka was the Rage, Vintage, 1997

  Gail Lumet Buckley, The Hornes: An American Family, Alfred Knopf, 1986

  Norman Cameron, Collected Poems and Selected Translations, Warren Hope and Jonathan Barker (eds), Anvil Press, 1990

  Humphrey Carpenter, The Envy of the World, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996

  Douglas Cleverdon, The Growth of Milk Wood, Dent, 1969

  Emily Holmes Coleman, The Shutter of Snow, Virago, 1981

  Cyril Connolly, Journal and Notebook, David Pryce-Jones (ed.), Collins, 1983

  Tony Conran, Frontiers in Anglo-Welsh Poetry, UWP, 1997

  Andy Croft, Letter to Randolph Swingler, Shoestring Press, 1999

  Allen Curnow, Look Back Harder, Auckland University Press, 1998

  James A. Davies, A Reference Companion to Dylan Thomas, Greenwood Press, 1998; Dylan Thomas’s Places, Christopher Davies, 1987; Dylan Thomas’s Swansea, Gower and Laugharne, UWP, 2000

  Rhys Davies, Print of a Hare’s Foot, Heinemann, 1969

  Walford Davies, Dylan Thomas: New Critical Essays, Dent, 1972; Dylan Thomas, Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1986

  Dan Davin, Closing Times, OUP, 1975

  Sean Day-Lewis, C. Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life, Weidenfeld, 1980

  Nicolette Devas, Two Flamboyant Fathers, Hamish Hamilton, 1985

  Jane Dunn, Antonia White, Cape, 1998

  Aeronwy Thomas Ellis, Later than Laugharne, Celtion Publications, 1976

  William Empson, Argufying, Chatto & Windus, 1987

  Paul Ferris, Caitlin, Hutchinson, 1993; Dylan Thomas, The Biography, Hodder & Stoughton, 1977; new edition, Dent, 1999

  Constantine FitzGibbon, The Life of Dylan Thomas, Dent, 1965

  Theodora FitzGibbon, With Love, Century Hutchinson, 1982

  Stephen Fothergill, The Last Lamplighter, London Magazine Editions, 2000

  Lloyd Frankenberg, The Pleasure Dome, Houghton Mifflin, 1949

  G.S. Fraser, A Stranger and Afraid, Carcanet Press, 1983

  Robert Fraser, The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker, Jonathan Cape, 2001

  Jonathan Fryer Dylan, The Nine Lives of Dylan Thomas, Kyle Cathie, 1993

  Jean Overton Fuller, The Magical World of Victor Neuburg, W.H. Allen, 1965

  David Gascoyne, Journal 1936–1937, Enitharmon, 1998; Selected Prose 1934–1996, Enitharmon, 1998

  Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, The Interior Castle: A Life of Gerald Brenan, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992

  Anthony Gibbs, In My Time, Peter Davies, 1969

  Anton Gill, Peggy Guggenheim, HarperCollins, 2001

  Allen Ginsberg, Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties, Grove Press, 1977

  Rob Gittins, The Last Days of Dylan Thomas, Macdonald, 1986

  John Goodby and Chris Wigginton, Dylan Thomas, New Casebooks, Palgrave, 2001

  Mark Goulden, Mark my Words, W.H. Allen, 1978

  W.S. Graham, The Night Fisherman: Selected Letters of W.S. Graham, Michael and Margaret Snow (eds), Carcanet, 1999

  Richard Perceval Graves, Richard Hughes, Andre Deutsch, 1994

  Robert Graves, The Crowning Privilege, Cassell, 1955

  Geoffrey Grigson, Recollections, Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press, 1984; The Private Art: A Poetry Notebook, Allison & Busby, 1982

  Miron Grindea (ed.), Dylan Thomas Memorial Number, Adam International Review, 1953

  John Gruen, The Party’s Over Now: Reminiscences of the Fifties, Viking, 1972

  John Haffenden, The Life of John Berryman, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982

  Michael Hamburger, A Mug’s Game

  Pamela Hansford Johnson, Important to Me, Macmillan, 1974

  Merion and Susie Harries, A Pilgrim Soul, Faber, 1989

  Selina Hastings, Evelyn Waugh, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995

  Desmond Hawkins, When I Was, Macmillan, 1989

  Seamus Heaney, The Redress of Poetry, Faber, 1995

  John Heath-Stubbs, Hindsights, Hodder & Stoughton, 1993

  Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees, Barrie & Rockcliff, 1960

  Robert Hewison, Under Siege: Literary Life in London 1939–1945, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977

  David Higham, Literary Gent, Jonathan Cape, 1978

  Paul Hogarth, Drawing from Life, David & Charles, 1997


  David Holbrook, Llareggub Revisited, Bowes & Bowes, 1962

  Michael Holroyd, Augustus John: The New Biography, Chatto & Windus, 1996

  Warren Hope, Norman Cameron, Greenwich Exchange, 2001

  Justine Hopkins, Michael Ayrton, Andre Deutsch, 1994

  Roger Horrocks, Len Lye, Auckland University Press, 2001

  Margherita Howard de Walden, Pages from My Life, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1965

  Christopher Isherwood, Diaries Vol 1 1939–1960, Katherine Bucknell (ed.), Methuen 1996

  Daniel Jones, My Friend Dylan Thomas, Dent, 1977

  Evan John Jones and Robert Cochrane, The Roebuck in the Thicket Capall, Bann, 2001

  Glyn Jones, The Dragon Has Two Tongues, Dent, 1968; revised edition, University of Wales Press, 2001

  P.J. Kavanagh, People and Places: A Selection 1975–1987, Carcanet, 1988

  Mary Keene, Mrs Donald, Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press, 1983

  Francis King, Yesterday Came Suddenly, Constable, 1993

  Philip Larkin, Selected Letters, Anthony Thwaite (ed.), Faber and Faber, 1992

  Hilary Laurie, Dylan Thomas’s Wales, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999

  Doris Lessing, Walking in the Shade, HarperCollins, 1997

  Mervyn Levy, Reflections in a Broken Mirror, Patten, 1982

  Jeremy Lewis, Cyril Connolly, Jonathan Cape, 1997

  Jack Lindsay, Meetings with Poets, Muller, 1968

  Michael Luke, David Tennant and the Gargoyle Years, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991

  Elisabeth Lutyens, A Goldfish Bowl, Cassell, 1972

  Hugh MacDiarmid, New Selected Letters, Duncan Grieve, Owen Dudley Evans and Alan Riach (eds), Carcanet, 2001

  Rollie McKenna, Portrait of Dylan, Dent, 1982

  Cecily Macworth, The Ends of the World, Carcanet, 1987

  Julian Maclaren-Ross, Memories of the Forties, Alan Ross, 1965

  Louis MacNiece, Selected Literary Criticism, Alan Heuser (ed.), Clarendon Press, 1987

  Ian MacNiven and Harry Moore (eds), Literary Lifelines, Faber, 1981

  Judith Malina, The Diaries of Judith Malina, Grove Press, 1984

  Paul Marini, Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman, William Morrow, 1990

  Arthur Calder Marshall, The Magic of My Youth, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951

  Roland Mathias, A Ride Through the Wood, Poetry Wales, 1985

  Ralph Maud, Dylan Thomas in Print, Dent, 1970; Where Have All the Old Words Got Me?, University of Wales Press, 2003

  Arthur Miller, Timebends, Methuen, 1987

  Kenneth O. Morgan, Rebirth of a Nation, Clarendon Press, 1981

  Desmond Morris, Animal Days, Cape, 1979

  John Mortimer, Clinging to the Wreckage, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1992

  Charlotte Mosley (ed.), The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, Hodder & Stoughton, 1996

  James Nashold and George Tremlett, The Death of Dylan Thomas, Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1997

  Victor F. Neuburg Jr, Vickybird: A Memoir, The Polytechnic of North London, 1983

  Keith Ovenden, A Fighting Withdrawal, OUP, 1996

  Peter Parker (ed.), The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers, Fourth Estate, 1995

  Frances Partridge, Diaries 1939–1972, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000

  Sebastian Peake, A Child of Bliss, Lennard Publishing, 1989

  Joseph Pearce, Bloomsbury and Beyond, HarperCollins, 2001

  Hesketh Pearson and Hugh Kingsmill, The Blessed Plot, Methuen, 1942

  John Pearson, Facades, Macmillan, 1978

  Roland Penrose, Scrap Book, Thames and Hudson, 1986

  George Plimpton, Truman Capote, Doubleday, 1998

  Anthony Powell, Faces in My Times, Heinemann, 1980

  Dawn Powell, The Diaries, Tim Page (ed.) Steerforth Press, 1995; Selected Letters, Tim Page (ed.), Henry Holt, 2000

  Michael Powell, Million-Dollar Movie, Heinemann, 1992

  Bill Read, The Days of Dylan Thomas, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965

  Eiluned Rees, Carmarthenshire Memories of the Twentieth Century, Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society, 2002

  Kenneth Rexroth, The New British Poets, New Directions, 1949

  Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin, Selected Letters (ed. Lee Bartlett), W.W. Norton, 1991

  John Alexander Rolph, Dylan Thomas: A Bibliography, Dent, 1956

  Allan Seager, The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke, McGraw-Hill, 1968

  Andrew Sinclair, Dylan Thomas: Poet of his People, Michael Joseph, 1975 War Like a Wasp, Hamish Hamilton, 1989

  Adam Sisman, A.J.P. Taylor, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994

  Edith Sitwell, Selected Letters, John Lehmann and Derek Parker (eds), Macmillan, 1970; Selected Letters, Richard Greene (ed.), Virago, 1998

  Joanna Skipwith (ed.), The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and 1930s, National Portrait Gallery, 1994

  Larry Smith, Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America, Bottom Dog Press, 2000

  Timothy d’Arch Smith, R.A. Caton and the Fortune Press, Bertram Rota, 1983

  Frances Spalding, Dance Till the Stars Come Down: A Biography of John Minton, Hodder & Stoughton, 1991

  Jon Stallworthy, Louis MacNeice, OUP, 1995

  Derek Stanford, Inside the Forties: Literary Memoir 1937–1957, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1977

  Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft, Conversations with Igor Stravinsky, Faber 1959

  Alvin Sullivan (ed.), British Literary Magazines: The Modern Age 1914–84, Greenwood Press, 1986

  Randolph Swingler, Selected Poems, Andy Croft (ed.), Trent Editions, 2000

  Dorothea Tanning, Between Lives, W.W. Norton, 2001

  A.J.P. Taylor, A Personal History, Hamish Hamilton, 1983

  E.W. Tedlock, (ed.), Dylan Thomas: The Legend and the Poet, Heinemann, 1960

  David N. Thomas, A Farm Two Mansions and a Bungalow, Seren, 2000; The Dylan Thomas Trail, Y Lolfa, 2002

  Caitlin Thomas, Leftover Life to Kill: Double Drink Story, Virago, 1998; (with George Tremlett) Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas, Secker and Warburg, 1986

  William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Dylan Thomas, The Noonday Press, 1967

  Ruthven Todd, Fitzrovia and The Road to the York Minster, Michael Parkin, Fine Art, 1973; Dylan Thomas: A Personal Account, unpublished memoir, National Library of Scotland

  Jeff Towns, Dylan Thomas: Word and Image, Swansea, 1995

  Henry Treece, Dylan Thomas: Dog Among the Fairies, Ernest Benn, 1956

  Jeremy Treglown, Romancing The Life and Work of Henry Green, Faber, 2000

  George Tremlett, Dylan Thomas In the Mercy of his Means, Constable, 1991

  Julian Trevelyan, Indigo Days, MacGibbon & Kee, 1957

  Kathleen Tynan, The Life of Kenneth Tynan, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987

  Kenneth Tynan, Letters, Kathleen Tynan (ed.), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994

  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Madly in All Directions, Longmans Green, 1967

  Bernard Wall, Headlong into Change, Harvill, 1969

  Gwen Watkins, Portrait of a Friend, Gomer, 1983

  Evelyn Waugh, The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980

  Anna Wickham, The Writings of Anna Wickham, ed. R.D. Smith, Virago, 1984

  Paul Willetts, Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia, Dewi Lewis, 2003

  Jane Williams (ed.), Tambimutti Bridge: Between Two Worlds, Peter Owen, 1989

  Glamor Williams (ed.), Swansea: an Illustrated History, Christopher Davies 1990

  Shelley Winters, Best of Times, Worst of Times, Century Hutchinson, 1990

  Justin Wintle, Furious Interiors, HarperCollins, 1996

  George Woodcock, Letter to the Past, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1982

  Joan Wyndham, Love is Blue, William Heinemann, 1986

  Philip Ziegler, London at War, Sinclair-Stevenson 1995; Osbert Sitwell, Chatto & Windus, 1998

  Index

  Abels, Cyrilly Ref 1

  Aberconway, Christabel, Lady Ref 1

  Abercrombie, David Ref 1

  Abercrombie,
Lascelles Ref 1, Ref 2

  Abercrombie, Ralph Ref 1–Ref 2

  Aberystwyth Ref 1

  Ackerman, John Ref 1

  Action Française Ref 1

  Adam Smith, Janet Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Adelphi Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Adler, Jankel Ref 1–Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6

  Advocate Ref 1

  Agate, James Ref 1

  Aiken, Conrad Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Aldington, Richard Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Algren, Nelson Ref 1

  Allen Wingate, publishers Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Amherst College Ref 1

  Amis, Kingsley Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3–Ref 4

  Anand, Mulk Raj Ref 1

  Anger, Kenneth Ref 1

  Ann Watkins agency Ref 1, Ref 2–Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6, Ref 7, Ref 8

  Anstey, Edgar Ref 1

  Apocalypse movement Ref 1, Ref 2

  Arbeid, Ben Ref 1

  Archer, David Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5

  Arena Ref 1, Ref 2

  Arlen, Michael Ref 1–Ref 2

  Arlott, John Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5

  Armstrong, John Ref 1

  Arp, Jean Ref 1

  Arthur, Gavin Ref 1

  Atkin, Rev. Leon Ref 1

  Atlantic Ref 1–Ref 2

  Auchinloss, Louis Ref 1

  Auden, W.H. Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6, Ref 7, Ref 8, Ref 9, Ref 10, Ref 11, Ref 12, Ref 13–Ref 14, Ref 15, Ref 16, Ref 17, Ref 18, Ref 19, Ref 20, Ref 21, Ref 22, Ref 23, Ref 24, Ref 25, Ref 26, Ref 27, Ref 28, Ref 29

  Ayrton, Michael Ref 1–Ref 2

  Bacon, Francis Ref 1

  Balcon, Michael Ref 1

  Banting, John Ref 1, Ref 2–Ref 3, Ref 4

  Barker, George Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6

  Barnes, Djuna Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Barnes, G.R. Ref 1–Ref 2, Ref 3

  Barrés, Maurice Ref 1

  Barrett, Mary Ellin Ref 1

  Bartók, Béla Ref 1

  Bartók, Peter Ref 1

  Bassett, Herbert Ref 1

  Bassett, Jackie Ref 1, Ref 2

  Baumann, Dr Anne Ref 1–Ref 2

  BBC

  DT’s first poem read on Ref 1; DT almost forgets to appear to read on ‘Life and the Modern Poet’ Ref 1; freelance BBC work Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5–Ref 6, Ref 7–Ref 8, Ref 9, Ref 10, Ref 11–Ref 12, Ref 13, Ref 14, Ref 15–Ref 16; Third Programme Ref 1, Ref 2; DT as performer Ref 1, Ref 2–Ref 3, Ref 4; BBC nervousness of DT Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3; see also Thomas, Dylan: STORIES AND PROSE BROADCASTS and Thomas, Dylan: UNDER MILK WOOD