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 links with Aberaeron, New Quay and Talsarn have been documented by local author David N 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 ).

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.

Also, instead of writing an entirely new song for the film, Dylan simply wrote out the first verse of “ Ballad of Easy Rider ” and told the filmmakers, “ Give this to McGuinn, he ’ ll know what to do with it .” McGuinn completed the song and performed it in the film.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Dylan had written one verse of a song, but was stuck.

After Perkins worked out a loping rhythm and improvised a verse ending lyric, Dylan said, " Your song.

The program has been usually a fifteen-minute reading of modern verse on Saturday evenings at seven thirty ; however, I have taken some liberties and have read from Moby Dick and from stories by Dylan Thomas, Robert Creeley, and Joyce.

In 1962, Bob Dylan modelled his song " A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall " on " Lord Randall ," introducing each verse with variants of the introductory lines to each verse of " Lord Randall.

His verse was well received by Eliot himself, Dylan Thomas, Edith Sitwell, and others.

Neil Young's song " Flags of Freedom " from his Living with War album mentions Dylan by name and melodically recalls the tune and verse structure of " Chimes of Freedom ", though Young is listed as the song's only writer.

The original last verse of the song refers to: " John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper, Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Hare Krishna and The Beatles ".

In 1996 and with the consent of Bob Dylan, Scottish musician Ted Christopher wrote a new verse for " Knockin ' on Heaven's Door " in memory of the schoolchildren and teacher killed in the Dunblane massacre.

There is an extra verse on the Bob Dylan website that is not in the album version ( right after the " backstage manager " verse ):

The lyrics to " All Along the Watchtower ", written by Bob Dylan, are, he says, " in a rather reverse order "; indeed, the final verse begins with the words " All along the watchtower ", and if reversed, the verses would tell the story in the correct order.

The last time I saw Dylan, his self-destruction had not just passed the limits of rationality.

Modern musicians such as Little Richard, Mark Farner, Dan Peek, Donna Summer, Bob Dylan, Kerry Livgren, Dave Hope, Dave Mustaine, Nicko McBrain, Roger McGuinn, Ted Nugent, Kanye West, Carrie Underwood, Johnny Cash, Brian Welch, Keith Farley, Cliff Richard, Charlie Daniels, Randy Travis, Alice Cooper, Steven Tyler, Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon, and Lou Gramm were artists whose born again conversions had an impact on modern culture.

He had a cameo role as Dylan, a smarmy pedestrian, in the 1986 musical remake of The Little Shop of Horrors, that also featured his SNL co-star, Steve Martin.

He had four more children by unidentified women: Stephen Blackehart ( born 1967 ), Michael Gilman ( born 1967 ), who was adopted by Brando's longtime friend Sam Gilman, Dylan Brando ( born 1968 ), and Angelique Brando.

He left behind 13 children ( two of his children, Cheyenne and Dylan Brando, had predeceased him ) as well as over 30 grandchildren.

Dylan indicated that he had taken cannabis, but has denied using hard drugs.

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 !".

During a March 2007 interview with the Western Daily Press, Ferry confirmed that although the next Roxy Music album is definitely being made, it would not be vended for another " year and a half ", as Ferry had just released and toured behind his twelfth studio album, Dylanesque, consisting of Bob Dylan covers.

Along the way, Harrison had to stop by Tom Petty's house to pick up his guitar ; Petty and his band had backed Dylan on his last tour.

Seizing the chance, the duo's U. S. producer, Tom Wilson, inspired by the Byrds ' hugely popular electric versions of Bob Dylan songs, used Dylan's studio band ( who had collaborated with him on his landmark hit " Like a Rolling Stone " that year ) to dub electric guitars, bass and drums onto the original " Sound of Silence " track, and released it as a single, backed with " We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin '".

Furthermore, they had little inkling of how internationally popular Dylan had become.

Although it should be noted that, by this point, several acts, notably Dylan on John Wesley Harding ( written during The Basement Tapes sessions ) and The Byrds on Sweetheart of the Rodeo ( featuring two Basement Tapes covers ), had made similar stylistic moves.

They had five children — three sons, Evan, Dylan, and Keiron, and two daughters, Madyn and Gaynor — before divorcing in 1980.

Harris had initially created the site to host gaming levels of the video game Doom which he and his friend, Dylan Klebold, had created, primarily for friends.

Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, had plotted for a year to kill at least 500 and blow up their school.

Bob Dylan holds a cue card in the music video for " Subterranean Homesick Blues ". The film features Joan Baez, Donovan and Alan Price ( who had just left The Animals ), Dylan's manager Albert Grossman and his road manager Bob Neuwirth ; Marianne Faithfull, John Mayall, Ginger Baker, and Allen Ginsberg may also be glimpsed in the background.

" Give the anarchist a cigarette " is uttered by Dylan upon learning that he had been pejoratively labeled as an anarchist by various newspapers in 1965.

The name Dylan Hunt had also been used for the hero of two TV movie pilots Roddenberry had produced in the mid-1970s, Genesis II and Planet Earth, which had a similar premise.