| Evidence: | 'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and folk tales, the Scottish Ballads, a few lines of hymns, the most famous Bible stories and the rhythms of the Bible, Blake's "Songs of Innocence", and the quite incomprehensible magical majesty and nonsense of Shakespeare heard, read, and near murdered in the first forms of my school'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 27 Sep 1921 and 27 Sep 1932 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Wales | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Swansea | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Dylan Thomas |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 27 Oct 1914 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | later poet |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Wales |
| Country of experience: | Wales |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Blake |
| Title: | Songs of Innocence |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 23685 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Andrew Sinclair | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Dylan the Bard: A life of Dylan Thomas | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 196 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Andrew Sinclair, Dylan the Bard: A life of Dylan Thomas (London, 1999), p. 196, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=23685, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| These words are Thomas's own from a 'Poetic Manifesto' published in 1961 in "Texas Quarterly" |
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