Record Number: 23685
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and folk tales, the Scottish Ballads, a few lines of hymns, the most famous Bible stories and the rhythms of the Bible, Blake's "Songs of Innocence", and the quite incomprehensible magical majesty and nonsense of Shakespeare heard, read, and near murdered in the first forms of my school'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 27 Sep 1921 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:Songs of Innocence
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:23685
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:196
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Andrew Sinclair, Dylan the Bard: A life of Dylan Thomas, (London, 1999), p. 196, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=23685, accessed: 07 October 2024
Additional Comments:
These words are Thomas's own from a 'Poetic Manifesto' published in 1961 in "Texas Quarterly"