Dylan Thomas
In Our Time: Culture
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Dill and Thomas Are Polar Opposites, but They're Useful Opposites.
Any history of twentieth century british poetry probably has dill and thomas fairly slap bang in the centre. They tend to be set up as polar opposites, but actually they come out of the same sense of crisis,. He's an outsider, as narris says as well. In 19 52, he reviewed a novel by amos tutola, the palm wine drinkerd an igerian novelist. And he said, this is a marvellous book. According to wallish yinke nowell prize winner, an igersian writer, also in the 19 seventies, this actually put west african literature on the map. Thomas helped to publicize the fact that
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