Introduction : the critical fates of Dylan Thomas -- 'Eggs laid by tigers' : process and the politics of mannerist modernism -- 'Under the spelling wall' : language and style -- 'Libidinous betrayal' : body-mind, sex and gender -- 'My jack of Christ' : hybridity, the gothic-grotesque and surregionalism -- 'Near and fire neighbours' : war, apocalypse and elegy -- 'That country kind' : Cold War pastoral, carnival and the late style -- 'The liquid choirs of his tribes' : Dylan Thomas as icon, influence and intertext
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Published to coincide with the centenary of the poet's birth, 'The Poetry of Dylan Thomas' is the first study to show how Thomas's poetry may be read in terms of modern critical theory, bringing to bear on it theories of modernism, the body, gender, the carnivalesque, language, hybridity, performance and the pastoral. It calls for a fundamental reappraisal of not only Thomas's poetry, but of the way in which post-Waste Land British poetry has been read over the last few decades, and presents for the first time a Dylan Thomas who makes full sense in 21st century terms
Thomas, Dylan,1914-1953-- Criticism and interpretation