Dylan Thomas's verse had to find endurance in a world of burning cities and burning Jews.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

David Holbrook, who has written three books about Thomas, stated in 1962, " the strangest feature of Dylan Thomas's notoriety-not that he is bogus, but that attitudes to poetry attached themselves to him which not only threaten the prestige, effectiveness and accessability to English poetry, but also destroyed his true voice and, at last, him.

Robert Lowell wrote in 1947, " Nothing could be more wrongheaded, than the English disputes about Dylan Thomas's greatness ...

Since 2010 he has been member of the Honour Committee of Immagine & poesia, an artistic literary movement founded in Turin, with the patronage of Aeronwy Thomas ( Dylan Thomas's daughter ).

Dylan Thomas's " Do not go gentle into that good night " is perhaps the most renowned villanelle of all.

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.

Similar ideas are found in Dylan Thomas's " Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ", which Williams excerpted and added as an epigraph to his 1974 version.

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's " In My Craft Or Sullen Art " is an example of syllabic verse in English: it has seven syllables in each line ( except the last ), but no consistent stress pattern.

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.

Dylan Thomas's boathouse and the ' heron-priested shore '

Although the town's Millennium Hall was used as the main venue, smaller events were hosted by local venues including Dylan Thomas's Boathouse.

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

He wrote poetry for several hours every night and by way of contrast, Caitlin, Dylan Thomas's wife, could not recall her husband staying in even for one night during their whole married life!

Cameron, whom Dylan Thomas said he regarded as his best friend, died in London of a brain haemorrhage, only six months before Thomas's own demise.

Caton is celebrated for obtaining the rights to Dylan Thomas's 18 Poems, which he published in 1934, with repercussions for the poet.

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 ).

Dylan Thomas ' links with Lampeter and nearby Talsarn, where he lived, have been documented.

The Dylan Thomas Trail links Talsarn and Lampeter with the other places in Ceredigion associated with the poet, such as Aberaeron and New Quay.

" Love and Theft is, as the title implies, a kind of homage ," writes Kot, " never more so than on ' High Water ( for Charley Patton ),' in which Dylan draws a sweeping portrait of the South's racial history, with the unsung blues singer as a symbol of the region's cultural richness and ingrained social cruelties.

In 2003, she reprised her role as Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in Olive, the Other Reindeer and appeared with Ben Stiller in Duplex in 2003.

However, in the original article on Young from the first edition of the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll and a subsequent article in the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide, critic Dave Marsh used this album to accuse Young of deliberately manufacturing a self-mythology, arguing that while his highlights could be seen to place him on a level with other artists from his generation like Bob Dylan or The Beatles, the particulars of his catalogue did not bear this out.

* Dylan ( programming language ), a language with Lisp-like semantics and ALGOL-like syntax

At one point in its development it was intended for use with Apple's Newton computer, but the Dylan implementation did not reach sufficient maturity in time, and Newton instead used a combination of C and the NewtonScript developed by Walter Smith.

In Dylan, the concepts of compile-unit and import-unit are separated, and classes have nothing specifically to do with either.

In contrast with most other OO languages, other methods applicable to the class are often defined outside of the class, and thus class definitions in Dylan typically include the definition of the storage only.

In Dylan, methods are not intrinsically associated with any particular class ; methods can be thought of as existing outside of classes.

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.

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.

* 1962: Dylan Thomas, a short, Oscar-winning, documentary film with Richard Burton as narrator, directed by Jack Howells.

Fern Hill ( 1945 ) is a poem by Dylan Thomas, first published in the October, 1945, Horizon magazine, with its first book publication as the last poem in Deaths and Entrances.

) Elsewhere, the album explored more serious themes, and found Bowie paying unusually direct homage to his influences with " Song for Bob Dylan ", " Andy Warhol ", and " Queen Bitch ", a Velvet Underground pastiche.

ELO effectively disbanded after that final show in Stuttgart in 1986, but there was no announcement made of it for the next two years, during which George Harrison's Lynne-produced album Cloud Nine and the pair's follow-up ( with Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty as Traveling Wilburys ) Traveling Wilburys Vol.

However it gave him an opportunity to create cultural programmes with contributions from T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, E. M. Forster, Ahmed Ali, Mulk Raj Anand, and William Empson among others.

Along the way, McGuinn's original album concept was jettisoned in favor of a fully fledged country project, which included Parsons ' songs such as " One Hundred Years from Now " and " Hickory Wind ", along with compositions by Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, and others.

While not recording, he frequently hung out and jammed with members of New Jersey – based country rockers Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends ( whose members included Tony Bennett's sons, Danny and Dae Bennett as well as future Dylan sideman and member of the Alpha Band, multi-instrumentalist David Mansfield ) and the proto-punk Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, who were being managed by Kaufman.

Blues harmonica players who are primarily or mainly associated with the instrument include Norton Buffalo, Jerry Portnoy, Lazy Lester, Bob Dylan, Sugar Blue, Billy Branch, Charlie Musselwhite, Corky Siegel, Junior Wells, Ron " Pigpen " McKernan, Kim Wilson, Slim Harpo, Al " Blind Owl " Wilson of Canned Heat, Jack Bruce of Cream and John Sebastian of The Lovin ' Spoonful.

During his service in the Peace Corps, he met future road manager Dylan Ferrero, with whom he still works today.

More conventionally named roadie Jack Slaughter and road manager Dylan Ferrero rounded out the crew and provided most of the driving of the " tour bus ", a Cadillac with 10-year-old expired license plates and a nasty predilection for going into a coma at the most inconvenient moment ( but, according to Friedman, her talent lay in her ability to stop on a dime and pick up the change ).

Friedman released Kinky Friedman in 1974 for ABC Records, then toured with Bob Dylan in 1975-6.

The likes of Bob Dylan, Serge Gainsbourg and The Rolling Stones combined popular musical traditions with modernist verse, adopting literary devices derived from James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, James Thurber, T. S. Eliot, Guillaume Apollinaire, Allen Ginsberg, and others.

Two of the most successful and influential acts of the era, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, were among the first to experiment with such references.

After being introduced to cannabis by Dylan, members of The Beatles began experimenting with LSD in 1965.

The result of this directness was limited airplay, and there was a similar reaction when Dylan, who had also electrified to produce his own brand of folk rock, released " Rainy Day Women ♯ 12 & 35 ", with its repeating chorus of " Everybody must get stoned !".