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This book celebrates the special relationship between beloved
British dogs and their devoted owners. Architects, fashion
designers, florists, entrepreneurs - these and the other famous,
creative and hyper-successful people have one thing in common when
it comes to their canines: the strength of the bond between human
and four-legged friend. This makes for tales of companionship that
will be sure to uplift your spirits and make the heart sing.
Exuberantly photographed by Dylan Thomas, with interviews by
Poodle-mad Georgina Montagu, Top Dogs is a joyous read and lustrous
eye-candy for dog lovers. From Jacobean manor to Cumbrian hill
farm, and circus wagon to royal residence, the lucky hounds who are
showcased in this sumptuous volume occupy some of the loveliest
homes in the country.
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The Family Remains (Standard format, CD)
Lisa Jewell; Read by Dominic Thorburn, Bea Holland, Hugh Quarshie, Josh Dylan, …
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Living Tradition: The Architecture and Urbanism of Hugh Petter
celebrates the exceptional professional achievement of one of the
world's leading traditional architects. It showcases recent
highlights from Hugh's award-winning portfolio, including handsome
new country houses; major alterations and refurbishment of historic
buildings; a significant new building for Trinity College in
Oxford; and commercial development at all scales with landed
estates across the UK and beyond. His pioneering work as
masterplanner for the Duchy of Cornwall is regularly cited as an
exemplar of a community that reflects local identity. Written by
Clive Aslet, with a foreword by The Former Prince of Wales, this
book reveals how a series of iconic buildings came to be. Richly
illustrated with newly commissioned photography by Dylan Thomas,
one of Britain's foremost photographers of architecture and
interiors, this book reveals the working process of the architect.
Common to all the buildings in this book - whether a new or
historic private house, a public building, or a masterwork of urban
design - is a loving attention to detail and materials, and an
architect who cares deeply for his craft.
We are not wholly bad or good Who live our lives under Milk Wood
And Thou, I know, wilt be the first To see our best side, not our
worst. In this enchanting illustrated adaptation, Cerys Matthews
brings Dylan Thomas's beloved classic to new life. This is a
bedtime story like no other; a book to be treasured by many
generations; a book for babies and old men alike, for all that are
young at heart. Welcome to the small seaside town of Llareggub.
Here you will find dreamers, workers, singers, sinners, the young,
old, blue, bold and a mix of all inbetween. Here you will meet
Captain Cat and Rosie Probert, Mr Organ Morgan and Mrs
Ogmore-Pritchard, Nogood Boyo, Mog and Myfanwy. Here you will watch
a day in their lives play out - from a dark, moonless night to a
morning that is busy as bees; from a sunny, slow lulling afternoon
to a deep, drifting dusk. So, to begin at the beginning . . .
'It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and
bible-black...' Under Milk Wood tells the story of a Welsh village
during one spring day. It is populated by some of the best-loved
characters in British literature. Lyrical, funny, moving, it is
rooted in place but with a universality that has spoken to
generations of readers. A Welsh epic, a work of poetic genius, a
modern classic. 'A tour de force of oral poetry which oozes word
pictures and onomatopoeic musicality' Guardian
This book is a sumptuously produced journey around twelve privately
owned country houses, asking what it is like to live in such places
today. What role do they play in the twenty-first century? For many
years after the Second World War, the country house was struggling.
Now a new generation of young owners, often with children, has
taken over. They're finding innovative ways to live in these
ancient, fragile and poetic places. While they treasure the history
and beauty of the houses, they're also adapting and enhancing them
for a modern era. Old Homes, New Life is a behind-the-scenes
account of today's aristocracy, as they reinvent the country house
way of life. Each family does this in its own way, maintaining the
tradition of individualism, even eccentricity, which is so much
associated with country houses. Dylan Thomas's superb yet intimate
photographs capture both the inhabitants of these houses and the
spaces they occupy - from State dining to family kitchen, walled
garden to attic. This feast for the eyes is accompanied by an
equally mouth-watering text by Clive Aslet, based on interviews
with family members and his long experience of the subject through
his years as Editor of Country Life. The result is an exclusive
tour of a dozen spectacular homes.
The bridge has always stood as a transitional structure - not
purely a work of engineering, nor simply a work of architecture.
Its functional requirements are more stringent than those of the
average building; it not only must stand up; it must stand up,
support those who cross it, and effectively span the space over
which it stands. As Samuel Johnson said, "the first excellence of a
bridge is strength ... for a bridge that cannot stand, however
beautiful, will boast its beauty but a little while." The Scottish
architect Robert Adam (1728-92) understood these precepts well,
continually building bridges that were not just structurally sound,
but also aesthetically pleasing. Unlike his contemporaries, Adam
did not view bridges as mere skeletons upon which to apply
ornament. Rather, he sought to achieve architectural totality,
incorporating his bridge designs into greater architectural
programs, thereby producing aesthetically pleasing and contextually
specific designs. From the Pulteney Bridge in Bath to the ruined
arch and viaduct at Culzean Castle in Ayrshire, The Bridges of
Robert Adam: A Fanciful and Picturesque Tour will take the reader
across Britain, shedding new light on an understudied aspect of the
great architect's career.
This gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old for over
half a century and is now a modern classic. Dylan Thomas
(1914-1953), one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the
twentieth century, captures a child's-eye view and an adult's fond
memories of a magical time of presents, aunts and uncles, the
frozen sea, and in the best of circumstances, newly fallen snow.
This gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old for over
half a century and is now a modern classic. Dylan Thomas
(1914-1953), one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the
twentieth century, captures a child's-eye view and an adult's fond
memories of a magical time of presents, aunts and uncles, the
frozen sea, and in the best of circumstances, newly fallen snow.
Perhaps most famous for UNDER MILK WOOD and his poems 'Do Not Go
Gentle into that Good Night', and 'Death Shall have no Dominion',
Dylan Thomas was a hugely colourful and iconic poet whose work was
greatly admired by contemporaries such as Edith Sitwell and Sylvia
Plath. He wrote well over 380 published poems as well as 50
journal-published poems, pastiches, poems from letters and radio
plays. This new edition of the author's poems looks at his body of
work in a new light, including material that was previously
overlooked or excluded from collections, as well as bringing to
bear advances in critical theory. Most importantly it emphasises
how accessible and immediate his work was, demonstrating its
relevance to a contemporary audience.
The definitive edition of Dylan Thomas's five published volumes of
poems: 18 POEMS, TWENTY-FIVE POEMS, THE MAP OF LOVE, DEATHS AND
ENTRANCES and IN COUNTRY SLEEP. Dylan Thomas wrote passionately
about life in all its moods and moments: from the first thrilling
moments of childbirth to the darker moments of death and loss.
COLLECTED POEMS is introduced by the poet himself with a passionate
seashore 'Prologue', in which the self-styled Noah of poetry builds
his ark against ruin. This edition includes his last, unfinished
poem 'Elegy', and the opening of 'In Country Heaven' - an ambitious
project conceived after the dropping of the atom bomb.
'To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the
small town, starless and bible-black...' When Richard Burton
breathed the opening words of Under Milk Wood into a microphone,
broadcasting history was made. For this 'play for voices' conjures
up the intimate dreams and waking lives of the inhabitants of a
Welsh seaside village in a remarkable way. It is bawdy and
beautiful; its colourful characters lust and love, gossip and
fantasise. Through the magic of language, Under Milk Wood creates a
rich modern pastoral which, once heard, touches the listener with
its poetry and haunts the imagination for ever. This radio drama is
the completed version broadcast in 1963 which includes several
passages that were omitted from the first recording in 1954. 2 CDs.
1 hr 41 mins.
Commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play
for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD takes the form of an emotive and
hilarious account of a spring day in the fictional Welsh seaside
village of Llareggub. We learn of the inhabitants' dreams and
desires, their loves and regrets. The play introduces us to
characters such as Captain Cat who dreams of his drowned former
seafellows and Nogood Boyo who dreams of nothing at all. It is a
unique and touching depiction of a village that has 'fallen head
over bells in love'. The First Voice narration reveals the ordinary
world of daily happenings and events, while the Second Voice
conveys the intimate, innermost thoughts of the fascinating folk of
Llareggub. There have been myriad productions of UNDER MILK WOOD
over the years and Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Elizabeth Taylor,
Sir Anthony Hopkins and Tom Jones have all starred in radio, stage
or film adaptations. Dylan Thomas's classic radio play reprinted to
celebrate the centenary of his birth. A true masterpiece that has
never been out of print.
The reputation of Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) as one of the
greatest poets of the twentieth century has not waned in the fifty
years since his death. A Welshman with a passion for the English
language, Thomas s singular poetic voice has been admired and
imitated, but never matched.
This exciting, newly edited annotated edition offers a more
complete and representative collection of Dylan Thomas s poetic
works than any previous edition. Edited by leading Dylan Thomas
scholar John Goodby from the University of Swansea, The Poems of
Dylan Thomas contains all the poems that appeared in Collected
Poems 1934-1952, edited by Dylan Thomas himself, as well as poems
from the 1930-1934 notebooks and poems from letters, amatory
verses, occasional poems, the verse film script for Our Country,
and poems that appear in his radio play for voices, Under Milk
Wood. Showing the broad range of Dylan Thomas s oeuvre as never
before, this new edition places Thomas in the twenty-first century,
with an up-to-date introduction by Goodby whose notes and
annotations take a pluralistic approach."
In England and America Dylan Thomas made his art and personality
widely known through public readings, radio broadcasts and
recordings. Many of the 25 short stories, autobiographical sketches
and essays in Quite Early One Morning, a volume planned by Thomas
shortly before his death, were read by him on such occasions. They
are alive with his verbal magic, his intense perception of life,
his gargantuan humor and with the very ring of his voice. Included
in this collection of prose pieces are such favorites as the
hilarious "A Visit to America," the account of a small boy's
marvelous day's outing--"A Story," and the memorable "A Child's
Christmas in Wales" which has been called 'the twentieth century
Christmas Carol.' Other pieces show Thomas's power as a sensitive
critic of poetry and as an exponent of his own intent as a poet.
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Collected Stories
Dylan Thomas
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This gathering of all Dylan Thomas’s stories—ranging
chronologically from the dark, almost surrealistic tales of
Thomas’s youth to such gloriously rumbustious celebrations of
life as “A Child’s Christmas in Wales†and “Adventures in
the Skin Tradeâ€â€”charts the progress of “The Rimbaud of
Cwmdonkin Drive†toward his mastery of the comic idiom. Here,
too, are stories originally written for radio and television and,
in a short appendix, the schoolboy pieces first published in the
Swansea Grammar School Magazine. A high point of the collection is
Thomas’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog,†a vivid
collage of memories from his Swansea childhood that combines the
lyricism of his poetry with the sparkle and sly humor of Under Milk
Wood. Also here is the fiction from Quite Early One Morning, a
collection planned by Thomas shortly before his death. Altogether
there are more than forty stories, providing a rich and varied
literary feast and showing Dylan Thomas in all his intriguing
variety–somber fantasist, joyous word-spinner, and irrepressible
comedian of smalltown Wales.Â
All Dylan Thomas' major works gathered together and featuring a
bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary. A
rich collection of Dylan Thomas' best-loved poems and stories, such
as PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG, and pieces he wrote for
radio and magazines, including the celebrated radio play UNDER MILK
WOOD. The DYLAN THOMAS OMNIBUS highlights the full range and genius
of this tempestuous and meticulous artist.
Between May 1930 and August 1935, Dylan Thomas kept numerous
notebooks of poems. They contain the drafts of almost all of the
work that would form his first two reputation-making collections,
18 Poems (1934) and Twenty-five Poems (1936), and many of those in
his third collection, The Map of Love (1939). Thomas sold four of
the notebooks, spanning May 1930 to May 1934, to the University of
Buffalo in 1941. However, the existence of a fifth notebook,
covering the period June 1934 to August 1935, was unknown until
2014, the centenary of his birth. The Fifth Notebook of Dylan
Thomas makes this newly-discovered text available to readers and
researchers for the first time. It contains the only existing MSS
versions of Thomas's most challenging poems, 'I, in my intricate
image' and 'Altarwise by owl-light', and fourteen other early
poems. It contains facsimiles and full transcripts of the
originals, is annotated throughout, and has a full scholarly
introduction. Exploring the contexts of these brilliant and
experimental lyrics - many with substantial reworkings and variant
passages - this landmark publication sheds new light on the
creative practice of one of the most important and well-known poets
of the twentieth century.
First the young schoolboy, gloriously immersed in make-believe in a
shabby farmyard; then the budding poet with his thrilling
friendships and dreams of fortune. Finally, the neophyte reporter
roaming suburban Swansea for momentous material. In ten wonderfully
evocative short stories, Dylan Thomas conveys the exuberance and
enthusiasm of youth as he fictionalises events from his childhood.
Adolescent sexuality and male friendship are two of the themes that
pervade this collection, along with the more familiar topics of
love, death and religion. Featuring a bold new livery in
celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary.
Literary Nonficton. Poetry History & Criticism. Letters. Edited
by Allen Frost, SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE includes photographs and
brief biographies of Patchen's correspondents. They include Harvey
Breit, Alex Comfort, E.E. Cummings, Robert Duncan, James T.
Farrell, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, James Laughlin, James Boyer May,
Alexander Meiklejohn, Henry Miller, Henry Moe, Harriet Monroe,
Lewis Mumford, Alan Neil, Miriam Patchen, Henry Rago, Kenneth
Rexroth, Harry Roskolenko, Isabel Smith-Stein, Wallace Stevens,
Dylan Thomas, Leon Trotsky, Louis Untermeyer, Amos Wilder, Thomas
Wolfe, and Jasper Wood."When reading Kenneth Patchen, a face stares
back out of the text. His very human gaze scrutinizes us and our
world with such intensity because he is looking for all the beauty
despite such apparent ugliness. The SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE reveals
the hardships and pain Patchen endured in this search, bolstered by
his muse Miriam. Reading Patchen is a profound literary experience,
an absolute delighting in humanity's possibilities yet also a
despondence, sometimes even anger, over our shortcomings. These
themes play themselves out here in Patchen's impassioned letters to
such friends and colleagues as Henry Miller, E.E. Cummings, Wallace
Stevens, et. al. To read this correspondence is to be astonished by
Patchen's insatiable quest for all that is good in life, one that
led him from proletarianism to concretism to jazz to painted poems.
Embrace hope, all ye who enter here."--Eckhard Gerdes
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