Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh Bretons, Cornish, Manx, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, Irish poet and writer[1][2] who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself. His public readings, particularly in America, won him great acclaim; his sonorous voice with a subtle Welsh lilt became almost as famous as his works. His best-known works include the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood and the celebrated villanelle A villanelle is a poetic form which entered English-language poetry in the 1800s from the imitation of French models. The word derives from the Italian villanella from Latin villanus . A villanelle has only two rhyme sounds. The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive for his dying father, Do not go gentle into that good night Do not go gentle into that good night, a villanelle composed in 1951, is considered to be among the finest works by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas . Originally published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1952, it also appeared as part of the collection "In Country Sleep." Written for his dying father, it is one of Thomas's most-quoted works. Appreciative critics have also noted the superb craftsmanship and compression of poems such as In my craft or sullen art[3] and the rhapsodic lyricism of Fern Hill.
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