Thomas, Dylan - Donald Tritschler (essay date 1971)
Donald Tritschler (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: “The Stories in Dylan Thomas' Red Notebook,” in Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 2, No. 1, September, 1971, pp. 33–56.
[In the excerpt below, Tritschler analyzes the changes made prior to the publication of the stories in Red Notebook, including the then unpublished “Gaspar, Melchior, Balthasar.”]
Dylan Thomas filled at least four copybooks with poetry and one, the Red Notebook,1 with short stories by the time he was twenty. Though he had also written juvenilia that his mother carefully preserved,2 these five notebooks contain early and late versions of most of his published poems and nine of his published short stories. Ralph Maud's publication of the four poetry copybooks,3 which were nearly finished when Thomas began the Red Notebook, shows that he had already explored most of his major themes.
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