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.

Irish poet Thomas Kinsella's 1972 poem Butcher's Dozen is a satirical and angry response to the Widgery Tribunal and the events of Bloody Sunday.

* 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.

Although Thomas was appreciated as a popular poet in his lifetime, he found earning a living as a writer difficult, which resulted in Thomas augmenting his income with readings and broadcasts.

His middle name, Marlais, was given in honour of his great-uncle, William Thomas, a Unitarian minister and poet whose bardic name was Gwilym Marles.

Thomas remained a popular guest on radio talk shows for the BBC who regarded him as " useful should a younger generation poet be needed ".

Reviewing the volume, critic Philip Toynbee declared that " Thomas is the greatest living poet in the English language ".

After drinking at the White Horse, a pub he had found through Scottish poet Ruthven Todd, Thomas returned to the Hotel Chelsea, declaring, " I've had 18 straight whiskies.

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.

Thomas ' obituary in the Times was written by fellow poet and long-time friend, Vernon Watkins.

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.

Thomas ' early poetry was noted for its verbal density, alliteration, sprung rhythm and internal rhyme, and he was described by some critics as having being influenced by English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

One poet Thomas greatly admired, and who is regarded as an influence, was Thomas Hardy.

Although Thomas described himself as the " Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive ", he stated that the phrase " Swansea's Rimbaud " was coined by poet Roy Campbell.

Thomas disliked being regarded as a provincial poet, and decried any notion of ' Welshness ' in his poetry.

" Fellow poet and critic Glyn Jones believed that any traces of cynghanedd in Thomas ' work was accidental, although he felt Thomas consciously employed one element of Welsh metrics ; that of counting syllables per line instead of feet.

Constantine FitzGibbon, Thomas ' first in-depth biographer, wrote " No major English poet has ever been as Welsh as Dylan ".

Thomas ' work and stature as a poet have been much debated by critics and biographers since his death.

When Seamus Heaney gave an Oxford lecture on the poet he opened by addressing the assembly, " Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry ", querying how ' Thomas the Poet ' is one of his forgotten attributes.

) The theory supplies Robin Hood with a wife, Matilda, thought to be the origin of Maid Marian, and Hunter also conjectured that the author of the Gest may have been the religious poet Richard Rolle ( 1290 – 1349 ), who lived in the village of Hampole in Barnsdale.

Somewhat later, the Romantic poet John Keats composed Robin Hood.

Wanstead was well known for its cherry orchards as late as the 1830s, when they were mentioned by poet Thomas Hood, who lived in Wanstead 1832-5.

* Thomas Hood, the poet.

* Thomas Hood ( 1799 – 1845 ), poet, humorist and journalist

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Whereas Bunhill Fields was described by the poet Robert Southey as " the Campo Santo of the Dissenters " ( a reference to the monumental cemetery of that name in Pisa, Italy-campo santo translates as " sacred field " or " saints ' abode " ) in respect of its late 17th and 18th centuries burials, Abney Park took on the mantle during the Victorian period in the writings of E. Paxton Hood for the Religious Tract Society.

This seems odd when one recalls that he wrote poetry longer than any other major English poet: `` Domicilium '' is dated `` between 1857 and 1860 '' ; ;

Ahmed was a poet who wrote a number of political and lyrical works under the name Bahti.

The chief authorities on the career of Alaric are: the historian Orosius and the poet Claudian, both contemporary, neither disinterested ; Zosimus, a historian who lived probably about half a century after Alaric's death ; and Jordanes, a Goth who wrote the history of his nation in 551, basing his work on The Trojan War.

129 ) indicate that the poet, his brothers and Pittacus made plans to overthrow him and that Pittacus subsequently betrayed them ; Alcaeus and his brothers fled into exile where the poet later wrote a drinking song in celebration of the news of the tyrant's death ( frag.

* Anton Alexander Graf von Auersperg ( 1806 – 1876 ) – Austrian poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Anastasius Grün.

Mozart wrote to his father in May 1783 about Salieri and Lorenzo Da Ponte, the court poet: " You know those Italian gentlemen ; they are very nice to your face!

" Swedish author August Strindberg wrote: " Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist ".

* Archibald MacLeish wrote a poem entitled " You Also, Gaius Valerius Catullus ," where he addresses the poet.

" Of the Australian national flag, the Australian poet Banjo Paterson wrote in 1893: The English flag may flutter and wave, where the world wide oceans toss, but the flag the Australian dies to save, is the flag of the Southern Cross.

The Scottish poet William Soutar also wrote over one hundred American Cinquains ( he labelled them Epigrams ) between 1933 and 1940.

Chaucer was a courtier, leading some to believe that he was mainly a court poet who wrote exclusively for nobility.

In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of " Das Lied der Deutschen " to Haydn's melody, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time.

Ernest Lawrence Thayer ( August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940 ) was an American writer and poet who wrote " Casey at the Bat ".

* The Italian Renaissance poet Lucrezia Tornabuoni chose Esther as one of biblical figures on which she wrote poetry.

The poet and colonist Edmund Spenser wrote that the victims " were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same ".

Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

This early form of democracy was recorded by the philosopher Rousseau, by the poet Wordsworth, by the dramatist Tirso de Molina and by the composer Iparraguirre, who wrote the piece called Gernikako Arbola.

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

He once wrote a paper under a pseudonym derived from Kobayashi Issa, a famous Japanese haiku poet.

It thus became expected that educated Europeans should learn at least some Italian ; the English poet John Milton, for instance, wrote some of his early poetry in Italian.

The poet Richard Barnfield wrote that Dowland's " heavenly touch upon the lute doth ravish human sense.

His brother George wrote that John " feared that he should never be a poet, & if he was not he would destroy himself ".

Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, a poet from Hindustan who visited at the time wrote: " Dine and drink in Kabul: it is mountain, desert, city, river and all else.