Dylan Thomas - No man more magical

Dylan Tomas was the best lyric poet of his age, who, by his life as well as his work, brought a new mass audience to his craft and his art. He was a cult figure in his own time as well as a poet for all time. This appreciation of Dylan casts a new light on his life and his work, emphasizing the divisions and tensions of his Welsh heritage and personal background. DYLAN THOMAS NO MAN MORE MAGICAL brings out the relation between Dylan's poetry and his life. He was Swansea provincial poet who wanted to be Rimbaud and more. Torn between a search for personal peace and an international notoriety, Dylan Thomas forced the world to recognize him as the greatest lyric poet of his age. Performing and enjoying his own performance Dylan was both an actor and a critic of himself; the self he created he also had to destroy. This book interweaves his life and work and death - his dream of Wales, the brawling and boozing in Fitzrovia in the thirties and forties, and the American lecture tour that finally killed him in the early fifties. This is a tragic and exuberant story. The author, Andrew Sinclair, was associated with Dylan Thomas for fifteen years, ever since the Dylan Thomas Literary Executors commissioned him to write the stage version of 'Adventures in the Skin Trade'. He continued his lifelong obsession with Dylan by writing and directing the feature film of 'Under Milk Wood'.