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  • Ackerman, John. Dylan Thomas: His Life and Work. London: Oxford University Press, 1964, 201 p. (In this critical biography, Ackerman stresses the importance of Thomas's Welsh heritage on his writings.)
  • Bold, Alan, ed. Dylan Thomas: Craft or Sullen Art. London: Vision Press, 1990, 181 p. (Contains essay by Margaret Moan Rowe on Thomas's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.)
  • Brinnin, John Malcolm, ed. A Casebook on Dylan Thomas. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1960, 322 p. (Collects reviews, essays, and appreciations by such noted critics and contemporaries of Thomas as Elder Olson, Henry Treece, and Geoffrey Grigson, as well as a selection of Thomas's most noted poems.)
  • Brinnin, John Malcolm. Dylan Thomas in America: An Intimate Journal. 1955. Reprint. London: Arlington Books, 1988, 313 p. (Chronicles Thomas's four reading tours in America from 1950 to 1953.)
  • Carson, Ricks. “Thomas's ‘A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London.’” The Explicator 54, no. 4 (Summer 1996): 240-42. (Discusses the complexity of Thomas's views on the afterlife as evidenced by the language of one of his most famous poems.)
  • Cox, C. B., ed. Dylan Thomas: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966, 186 p. (Includes essays written in the decade following Thomas's death by David Daiches, Ralph Maud, Elder Olsen, and others.)
  • Cushman, Keith. “Eight Stories by Dylan Thomas.” Studies in Short Fiction 31, no. 2 (Spring 1994): 265–67. (Compares the stories in this collection favorably with those of Dubliners by James Joyce.)
  • Davies, James A. A Reference Companion to Dylan Thomas. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998, 365 p. (A biography and critical history covering Thomas's poetic and prose works. Includes critical histories focusing individually on Thomas's reputation in England, Wales, and North America.)
  • Davies, Walford. Dylan Thomas. Rev. ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990, 68 p. (Biographical study emphasizing the importance of Welsh landscape and culture in Thomas's works.)
  • Davies, Walford. Dylan Thomas: New Critical Essays. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1972, 282 p. (Includes contributions by such critics as John Wain.)
  • Ferris, Paul. Dylan Thomas. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1977, 309 p. (Comprehensive biography incorporating previously unused or unpublished archive material as well as interviews with numerous friends and acquaintances of Thomas.)
  • FitzGibbon, Constantine. The Life of Dylan Thomas. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1965, 370 p. (Authorized critical biography.)
  • Gaston, Georg. Critical Essays on Dylan Thomas. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989, 197 p. (Contains essays written since Thomas's death that focus on Thomas's craft, religion, and his influential reputation.)
  • Gaston, Georg. Dylan Thomas: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987, 213 p. (A compilation of secondary sources.)
  • Glick, Burton S. “A Brief Analysis of a Short Story by Dylan Thomas.” American Imago 14, no. 2 (Summer 1957): 149–54. (An analysis of “The Followers” from Adventures in the Skin Trade, and Other Stories.)
  • Greenway, William. “Dylan Thomas and ‘The Flesh's Vision.’” College Literature 16, no. 3 (1989): 274-80. (Exploration of the various perspectives employed by Thomas in his poetry.)
  • Jackaman, Rob. “Man and Mandala: Symbol as Structure in a Poem by Dylan Thomas.” Ariel 7, no. 4 (October 1976): 22-33. (Analysis of the symbolic structure of “I See the Boys of Summer.”)
  • Kelly, Richard. “The Lost Vision in Dylan Thomas' ‘One Warm Saturday.’” Studies in Short Fiction 6, no. 2 (Winter 1969): 205–09. (Compares and contrasts Thomas's “One Warm Saturday” from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and James Joyce's “Araby” from Dubliners.)
  • Linebarger, Jim Lad Kirsten. “Thomas's ‘Shall Gods Be Said to Thump the Clouds.’” The Explicator 48, no. 3 (Spring 1990): 212-15. (Contends that Thomas's poem is far more complicated than its simple style suggests.)
  • Maud, Ralph. Dylan Thomas in Print: A Bibliographical History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970, 261 p. (An extensive listing of primary and secondary sources.)
  • Morris, Frances. “The Man Who Loved and Haunted Himself.” Times Literary Supplement (2 March 1984): 227. (Maintains that Thomas's self-absorption is reflected in his short stories.)
  • Mosher, Harold F., Jr. “The Structure of Dylan Thomas's ‘The Peaches.’” Studies in Short Fiction 6, no. 5 (Fall 1969): 536–47. (A structural analysis of “The Peaches” from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.)
  • Moylan, Christopher. “Thomas's ‘O Make Me a Mask.’” The Explicator 54, no. 1 (Fall 1995): 39-42. (Suggests that Thomas's poem anticipates postmodern anxiety about authorship and its relationship to the text.)
  • Nemerov, Howard. “The Generation of Violence.” In Critical Essays on Dylan Thomas, edited by Georg Gaston, pp. 20-26. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1989. (Maintains that most of Thomas's poetry is characterized by an attempt to avoid structure based on a narrative, linear progression.)
  • Peach, Linden. The Prose Writing of Dylan Thomas. London: MacMillan Press, 1988, 144 p. (Concludes by announcing Welsh poet R. S. Thomas as Thomas's poetic successor.)
  • Phillip, Neil. Review of A Visit to Grandpa's and Other Stories. Times Educational Supplement, no. 3564 (19 October 1984): 25. (A short laudatory review of a new collection of stories, five of which originated in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.)
  • Rolph, J. Alexander. Dylan Thomas: A Bibliography. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1956, 108 p. (This early bibliography of works by and about Thomas includes illustrations.)
  • Thwaite, Anthony. “Dylan Thomas (1914-1953).” In Twentieth-Century English Poetry: An Introduction, pp. 72-80. London, England: Heinemann, 1978. (Discussion of Thomas's poetry with special attention to “After the Funeral.”)
  • Treece, Henry. “Relations to Surrealism.” In Dylan Thomas: ‘Dog Among the Fairies,’ pp. 21-9. New York, N.Y.: John de Graff, 1956. (Explanation of the similarities and differences between Thomas and the Surrealists, with whom the poet is often linked.)
  • Wardi, Eynel. “Poem on His Birthday.” In Once below a Time: Dylan Thomas, Julia Kristeva, and Other Speaking Subjects, pp. 35-60. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2000. (Offers an analysis of Thomas's “Poem on His Birthday.”)

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