Record Number: 23672
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 27 Sep 1927 and 27 Sep 1932
Country:Wales
Timen/a
Place:city: Swansea
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:27 Oct 1914
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:later poet
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:Wales
Country of Experience:Wales
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:n/a
Genre:Other religious, Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:23672
Source:Andrew Sinclair
Editor:n/a
Title:Dylan the Bard: A life of Dylan Thomas
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1999
Vol:n/a
Page:195
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Andrew Sinclair, Dylan the Bard: A life of Dylan Thomas, (London, 1999), p. 195, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=23672, accessed: 07 October 2024
Additional Comments:
These words are Thomas's own from a 'Poetic Manifesto' published in 1961 in "Texas Quarterly"