ONE of the greatest poets of the present age, Dylan Thomas, died on November 9. He was but thirty-nine in October, his poetry was increasing in splendor. His loss to poetry and to his true friends is ...

ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE AND OTHER STORIES (275 pp.) — DylanThomas —New Directions ($3.50). SEVEN LETTERS TO OSCAR WILLIAMS (13 pp.) — Dylan Thomas — in New World Writing #7 — New American Library ...

DYLAN THOMAS’S posthumous life began before he died. Before he died, before he lay for days in a coma in St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York, while the literati, literary hostesses, patrons, and others ...