Criticism and other work
Many titles are available online from the Dylan Thomas Centre.
John Ackerman – A Dylan Thomas Companion
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991)
A Dylan Thomas Companion is available online from the Swansea Shop.
John Ackerman – Dylan Thomas, His Life and Work
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996)
John Ackerman – Welsh Dylan
(Bridgend: Seren, 1998)
Sam Adams (ed) – Poetry Wales: A Dylan Thomas number
Vol.9. no.2, 1973
Alan Bold (ed) – Dylan Thomas: Craft or Sullen Art
(London and New York: Vision and St Martin’s Press – now Palgrave – 1990)
Tony Brown (ed) – Welsh Writing in English – a yearbook of critical essays
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003)
Welsh Writing in English – a yearbook of critical essays is available online at the Swansea Shop.
Robert K. Burdette – The saga of prayer : the poetry of Dylan Thomas
(The Hague : Mouton, 1972)
Richard Burns – Ceri Richards and Dylan Thomas : keys to transformation: a monograph
(London : Enitharmon Press, 1981)
Douglas Cleverdon – The Growth of Milk Wood
(London: Dent, 1969)
C.B. Cox (ed) – Dylan Thomas: The Legend and the Poet
(London: William Heinemann, 1960)
Aneirin Talfan Davies – Dylan. Druid of the Broken Body
(London: Dent, 1964)
James A Davies – Dylan Thomas’ Places: A Biographical and Literary Guide
(Swansea: Christopher Davies, 1987)
James A Davies – A Pocket Guide to Dylan Thomas’ Swansea, Gower and Laugharne
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000)
A Pocket Guide to Dylan Thomas’ Swansea, Gower and Laugharne is available online at the Swansea Shop.
James A Davies – A Reference Companion to Dylan Thomas
(Wesport CT: Greenwood Press, 1998)
Walford Davies (ed) – Dylan Thomas: New Critical Essays
(1972)
Walford Davies – Dylan Thomas: Open Guides to Literature Series
(Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1986)
Dylan Thomas: Open Guides to Literature Series is available online at the Swansea Shop.
Walford Davies – Dylan Thomas: Writers of Wales Series
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1990)
W. Emlyn Davies – Dylan Thomas – illuminations at the house of the poet’s birth
(Swansea : Celtic Publications, 1973)
Clark Emery – The Word of Dylan Thomas
(London: Dent, 1971)
Jillian M. Farringdon and Michael G Farringdon (eds) – A concordance and word-lists to the poems of Dylan Thomas
(Oxford : Oxford Microform Publications Swansea : Ariel House Publications, 1980)
George J.Firmage (ed) – A garland for Dylan Thomas
(New York : Clarke & Way, 1963)
Jonathan Fryer – Dylan. The Nine Lives of Dylan Thomas
(Kyle Cathie, 1993)
Georg Gaston – Dylan Thomas: A Reference Guide
(Boston: G.K.Hall, 1987)
Rob Gittins – The Last Days of Dylan Thomas
(London: Macdonald, 1986)
John Goodby & Chris Wigginton (eds) Dylan Thomas: Contemporary Critical Essays
(Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)
Dylan Thomas: Contemporary Critical Essays is available online at the Swansea Shop.
Barbara Hardy – Dylan Thomas: an original language
(Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2000)
Barbara Hardy – Dylan Thomas’s Poetic Language: The Stream That is Flowing Both Ways
(Cardiff: University College Cardiff, 1987)
David Holbrook – Dylan Thomas : the code of night
(London : Athlone Press, 1972)
David Holbrook – Llareggub Revisited: Dylan Thomas and the State of Modern Poetry
(Cambridge, 1962)
Beryl Hughes – The Cat’s Whiskers
(Hove : B. Hughes, 1998)
Gwyn Jones – Background to Dylan Thomas and other explorations
(Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992)
T. Harri Jones – Dylan Thomas
(Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1963)
R. B. Kershner, Jr. – Dylan Thomas : the poet and his critics
(Chicago : American Library Association, 1976)
H.H Kleinman – The religious Sonnets of Dylan Thomas : a study in imagery and meaning
(Berkeley (California): University of California Press, 1963)
Jacob Korg – Dylan Thomas
(New York : Twayne Publishers, 1965)
Hilary Laurie – Dylan Thomas’ Wales
(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999)
Min Lewis – Laugharne and Dylan Thomas illustrated by Stanley Lewis
(Jennifer Heywood Press, reissued 2004)
Joseph Magoon – A bibliography of writings about Dylan Thomas for 1960 to 1989
(Bournemouth: J. Magoon, 1994)
Hugo Manning – Dylan Thomas : a poem; with linocuts by Paul Peter Piech
(London : Enitharmon Press, 1977)
Michael Marland (ed) Dylan Thomas
(London: Times Newspapers, 1970)
Ralph Maud – Dylan Thomas in Print: A Bibliographical History
(London: Dent, 1970)
Ralph Maud – Entrances to Dylan Thomas’ Poetry
(Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 1963)
Ralph Maud – Where have the old words got me?
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003)
Where have the old words got me? is available online at the Swansea Shop.
Ann Elizabeth Mayer – Artists in Dylan Thomas’s Works: Adam Naming and Aesop Falling
(Montreal and Kingston: McGill University Press, 1995)
Rollie McKenna – Portrait of Dylan: A Photographer’s Memoir
(London: Dent, 1982)
William T Moynihan – The Craft of Dylan Thomas
(Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1968)
Elder Olson – The Poetry Of Dylan Thomas
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954)
Linden Peach: The Prose Writings of Dylan Thomas
(London: 1988)
Derek Perkins – Dylan Thomas and His World
(Swansea: Domino Books, 1995)
John Petts (illustrator) – The Laugharne Poems
(Llandogo: Old Stile Press, 2003)
Poetry Society – Man be my metaphor : a tribute to Dylan Thomas
(Cheltenham : Talking Tape Company, 1991)
Annis Pratt – Dylan Thomas’ Early Prose: A Study in Creative Mythology
(Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 1970)
Bill Read – The Days of Dylan Thomas: A Pictorial Record with photographs by Rollie McKenna
(London: Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1964)
Stephen M. Rees – A Pictorial Record with photographs by Rollie McKenna
(Cardiff: WJEC National Language Unit of Wales, 1998)
Ethel Ross – Dylan Thomas and the amateur theatre
(Swansea : Swansea Little Theatre, [1983?])
David Rowe – Dylan
(Llandysul: Gomer, 2003)
Louis Simpson – A revolution in taste : studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell
(New York : MacMillan, c1978)
Andrew Sinclair – Dylan the Bard
(New York: Thomas Dunne, 1999)
Andrew Sinclair – Dylan Thomas : poet of his people
(London : Joseph, 1975)
Swansea Print Workshop – Especially when the October wind : a set of twelve prints to commemorate the 50th anniversay of the death of Dylan Thomas
(Swansea: Swansea Print Workshop, 2003)
The Swansea Review – Under the Spelling Wall: Dylan Thomas Issue. No 20
(2000)
E.W. Tedlock (ed) Dylan Thomas: The Legend and the Poet
(London: Heinemann, 1960)
David N Thomas – Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow
(Bridgend: Seren, 1999)
David N Thomas – The Dylan Thomas Trail, Ceredigion
(Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2002)
Dylan Thomas Society of Great Britain: Dylan Thomas Remembered
(Swansea: Dylan Thomas Society, 1978)
Dylan Thomas Society of Great Britain: I Sang in my Chains: A Tribute to Dylan Thomas
(Swansea: Dylan Thomas Society, 2003)
William York Tindall – A Reader’s Guide to Dylan Thomas
(Thames and Hudson, 1962)
Henry Treece – Dylan Thomas: ‘Dog Among the Fairies’
(Ernest Bevan, 1956)
George Tremlett – Dylan Thomas: In the mercy of his means
(Constable, 1991)
George Tremlett and James Nashold – The Death of Dylan Thomas
(Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1997)
R L Varshev – The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: A Critical Study
(Doaba House, 1983)
Eynel Wardi – Once Below a Time: Dylan Thomas, Julia Kristeva and Other Speaking Subjects
(Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2000)
Vernon Watkins – Poems for Dylan
(Llandysul: Gomer, 2003)
Chris Wigginton – Modernism from the Margins: The 1930s Poetry of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007)
Gwen Watkins and Jeff Towns (editors) – Vernon Watkins on Dylan Thomas and other Poets and Poetry (Cardigan: Parthian, 2013)
William Christie – Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life (London: Palgrave MacMillan 2014)
Jonathan Fryer – The Nine Lives of Dylan Thomas (London: Thistle Publishing, 2014)
John Goodby – The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: Under the Spelling Wall (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2014)
Rhian Barfoot – Liberating Dylan Thomas: Rescuing a Poet from Psycho-sexual Servitude (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2015)
John Goodby – Discovering Dylan Thomas: A Companion to the Collected Poems an Notebook Poems (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2017)
Cengage Learning – A Study Guide for Dylan Thomas’s Fern Hill (Gale Study Guides, 2017)
Cengage Learning – A Study Guide for Dylan Thomas’s Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (Gale Study Guides, 2017)
John Goodby & Adrian Osborne – The Fifth Notebook of Dylan Thomas: Annotated Manuscript Edition (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
Rhian Barfoot & Kieron Smith – New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas: “A writer of words, and nothing else?” (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2020)
Edward Allen (editor) – Reading Dylan Thomas (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
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