Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dylan Thomas
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Adolescence, Surrealism, Rural or country life, Small-town life, Boys, Wales or Welsh people
- Locales: Swansea, Wales
Critical Evaluation:
Posthumous biographical studies of Dylan Thomas record a change in appreciation that was long overdue. During his lifetime, Thomas was regarded in the United States as a great English poet and reciter, but only after his death did his work—which includes poetry, fiction, dramas, essays, and impressionistic sketches—come to be regarded as a multifaceted whole. Representative of this reassessment was the growing respect accorded his first collection of short stories, which is also a mock-autobiography, that Thomas mockingly titled in imitation of James...
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