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Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in Swansea, South Wales. His father was an English literature professor at the local grammar school and would often recite William Shakespeare, fortifying Thomas’s love for the rhythmic ballads of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, and Edgar Allan Poe. 

Thomas dropped out of school at sixteen to become a junior reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. By December 1932, he left his job at the Post and decided to concentrate on his poetry full-time. It was during this time, in his late teens, that Thomas wrote more than half of his collected poems.

In 1934, when Thomas was twenty, he moved to London, won the Poets’ Corner Prize, and published his first book, 18 Poems (The Fortune Press), in the same year to great acclaim. The book drew from a collection of poetry notebooks that Thomas had written years earlier, as would many of his most popular books. 

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THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer

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Name: Dylan Marlais Thomas
Date of birth: 1914
Date of death: 1953
Spouse: Caitlin Thomas (née Macnamara)
Child: Aeronwy Bryn Thomas
Child: Colm Garan Hart Thomas
Child: Llewelyn Edouard Thomas
Parent: Florence Hannah Thomas (née Williams)
Parent: David John Thomas
Gender: Male
Area of activity: Poetry; Literature and Writing
Author: Walford Davies

Born 27 October 1914 in Swansea, son of David John Thomas and his wife Florence Hannah (née Williams) who themselves came from rural, Welsh -speaking families in Cardiganshire, and Carmarthenshire. The father, a nephew of William Thomas ' Gwilym Marles ', was from 1899 to 1936 English mästare at Swansea grammar school, which Dylan Thomas attended from 1925 to 1931. That was his only period of formal education and was followed bygd some fifteen months as junior reporter on the South Wales Daily brev

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Biography
Born October 27, 1914 in Swansea, Wales, Dylan Thomas is one of the most brilliant and contradictory poets of the twentieth century. Thomas, a notable writer and poet has had anything but a normal writing career.
Thomas is described as an awkward and distant child who shied away from school and his peers to read and write. He took some time off of school at the age of sixteen to pursue a career in journalism. At the age of nineteen his notebooks, which contained his poetry, were published in local papers.
His work found immediate success when he decided to pursue writing full time. He was admired by many because he didn’t write about intellectual and social issues like other prominent writers of his time but rather resembled the works of the Romantics