If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.

Like the pillars of Hercules, like two ruined Titans guarding the entrance to one of Dante's circles, stand two great dead juvenile delinquents -- the heroes of the post-war generation: the great saxophonist, Charlie Parker, and Dylan Thomas.

Now Dylan Thomas and Charlie Parker have a great deal more in common than the same disastrous end.

A poem by Dylan Thomas, a saxophone solo by Charles Parker, a painting by Jackson Pollock -- these are pure confabulations as ends in themselves.

* Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet

Dylan Marlais Thomas ( 27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953 ) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems, " Do not go gentle into that good night ", " And death shall have no dominion ", the " play for voices ", Under Milk Wood, and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea, birthplace of Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, in Wales, on 27 October 1914, to David John Thomas ( 1876 – 1952 ), a teacher, and Florence Hannah ( née Williams ) ( 1882 – 1958 ), a seamstress.

Thomas ' father chose the name Dylan, which could be translated as " son of the sea ", after Dylan ail Don, a character in The Mabinogion.

Dylan Thomas Theatre, home of Swansea Little Theatre

Dylan's legacy as the " doomed poet " was cemented with the publication of Brinnin's 1955 biography Dylan Thomas in America, which focusses on his last few years and paints a picture of him as a drunk and a philanderer.

David Thomas in Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas?

Caitlin Thomas ' autobiographies, Caitlin Thomas – Leftover Life to Kill ( 1957 ) and My Life with Dylan Thomas: Double Drink Story ( 1997 ), describe the destructive effect of alcoholism on the poet and to their relationship.

William York Tindall, in his 1962 study, A Reader's Guide to Dylan Thomas, finds comparison between Thomas ' and Joyce's wordplay, while he notes the themes of rebirth and nature are common to the works of Lawrence and Thomas.

Under Dylan the programmer can simply place every function call in the " Private " or " Development " interface, and collect up publicly accessible functions in " Public ".

During their time together, the five members of the Traveling Wilburys frequently collaborated on each others ' solo records ; Lynne and Petty worked on Orbison's final album Mystery Girl ( 1988 ), Harrison played on Dylan's Under the Red Sky ( 1990 ), and Petty and Harrison worked on Lynne's Armchair Theatre ( 1990 ); Lynne produced Petty's solo albums Full Moon Fever ( 1989 ) ( which involved all the Wilburys, save for Dylan ) and Highway Companion ( 2006 ), as well as the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Into the Great Wide Open ( 1991 ).

In 1954, Burton took his most famous radio role, as the narrator in the original production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, a role he would reprise in the film version twenty years later.

There were occasional efforts at more literary works, such as Under Milk Wood ( 1954 ) and " Play for Voices " by Dylan Thomas.

The careers of some 1930s writers continued after World War Two, including those of Gwyn Thomas, Vernon Watkins, and Dylan Thomas, whose most famous work Under Milk Wood was first broadcast in 1954.

An example of this is seen in Dylan Thomas's radio play Under Milk Wood: " The shops in mourning " where mourning can be heard as mourning or morning.

The theatre, the construction of which was largely financed by lottery grants from Arts Council England, opened in October 1998 with a production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood.

* Dylan Thomas – Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, adapted later as a stage play.

Dylan Thomas is reported to have commented that Under Milk Wood was developed in response to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as a way of reasserting the evidence of beauty in the world.

Both towns use the Under Milk Wood association to attract tourists, hence the rivalry, and The Dylan Thomas Trail has been opened in New Quay.

* Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood: a ménage à trois is seen in the form of Dai Bread, and his two wives: Mrs. Dai Bread 1 and Mrs. Dai Bread 2.

Particularly notable were its drama productions, including the radio plays of Samuel Beckett, Henry Reed ( the Hilda Tablet plays ), Harold Pinter, Joe Orton and Dylan Thomas, whose Under Milk Wood was written specially for the Programme.

* Polly Garter, a character in the play for voices Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

Works by the collective have included Dada cabaret, an interpretation of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, Crass ' Yes Sir I Will and an update of Dylan Thomas ' play Under Milk Wood, in which property developers move into the mythical Welsh village of Llareggub.

He is best known for his quartets and thirteen symphonies ( some composed in his own system of ' Complex Metres ') and for his song settings for Dylan Thomas's play, " Under Milk Wood ".

As well as composing song-settings for Thomas's Under Milk Wood ( 1954 ) and dedicating his fourth symphony ( 1954 ) to Thomas's memory, he edited collections of Thomas's poetry and prose, and in 1977 published the memoir, My Friend Dylan Thomas.

* 1954 Under Milk Wood, incidental music for Dylan Thomas

His first role as an actor was the lead in Dylan Thomas ' play, Under Milk Wood.

It is known for having been the home of Dylan Thomas from 1949 until his death in 1953, and is thought to have been an inspiration for the fictional town of Llareggub in Under Milk Wood.

Under the guidance of the Vineyard Fellowship, Dylan was asked to attend a course held at the Vineyard School of Discipleship, which would run four days a week over the course of three months.

Though his parents are Welsh-his mother Buddug-Mair Powell acted in the original stage show of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood in the West End and on Broadway in 1956-Maxwell was born and raised in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire.

* Jack Black, cobbler in Dylan Thomas's radio play, Under Milk Wood

The track " Don't Look Back " from the album Angel Milk was used in a love scene between characters Helena Peabody & Dylan Moreland in the American series The L Word.

The name is a reference to Dylan Thomas's radio play " Under Milk Wood ", for which he created the fictitious Welsh town of Llareggub (" bugger all " spelled backwards ).

( Davies has also stated that Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood was an indirect inspiration for the concept ).