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Hello, Dylan Thomas, 1914 to 1953,

wrote some of his best poems before he was 20.

In the first half of his short, remarkable life,

the beginning whales, and ended in a New York hospital.

Some, but far from all, he was prolific

in the second half of his life too,

including poems set in London under the blitz

and re-workings of his childhood in Swansea,

and his famous radio play, Under Milk Wood.

And with his reading tools in American records of his works

that sold in hundreds of thousands after his death,

he's credited with reviving the active poetry

as performance in the 20th century.

When we're to discuss Dylan Thomas, our nearest Williams,

Associate Professor of Poetry and Poetics

at University College of London,

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