FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
POETRY
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Anthony Hopkins
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Richard Burton
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Tom Jones
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Dylan Thomas
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under Milk Wood, play for voices by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, performed in 1953 and published in 1954. Originally written as a radio play, Under Milk Wood is sometimes presented as a staged drama.
Detailed explanation-2: -It was written in New Quay, most of it.” Ivy Williams, Brown’s Hotel, Laugharne. “He wrote the first half within a few months; then his inspiration seemed to fail him when he left New Quay, Cardiganshire, and came to live in London.” Douglas Cleverdon, the play’s producer.
Detailed explanation-3: -Considered to be one of the greatest Welsh poets of all time, Thomas is largely known for his imaginative use of language and vivid imagery in his poems. Thomas began writing poetry as a child, and was publishing by his teens.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is first named in the short story The Burning Baby, published in the surrealist journal Contemporary Poetry and Prose in 1936. Thomas took his inspiration from the bizarre true story of William Price, a physician and druid who named his son Iesu Grist (Welsh for “Jesus Christ”).