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Father: David John Thomas; English teacher at Savarsea Grammar School
Mother: Florence Hannah WIlliams; seamstress |
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| lived in upland suburban area; respectable area, but family had consistent financial trouble |
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| parents spoke Welsh; brought him up in English |
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| childhood summer at aunt's dairy farm later inspired.. "Fern Hill" - published 1947 |
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| began attending his father's grammar school |
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| both parents supported... father = shakespeare, mother = comics |
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| sold first poem to newspaper - "His Requiem" - later thought to be another's work |
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| unruly child; excelled only in English |
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| 1931 - left school got job as reporter for Wales Evening Post; eventually fired; began work as freelance journalist |
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| 1933 - published in periodicals; won BBC poetry competition |
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| moved to London- known more as drunk than writer |
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published while in London
"18 Poems" |
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| nostalgia, life, death, and lost innocence |
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daughter born - 1940
son born - 1949 |
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| 3 separate trips to America |
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1st in 1950
Main motivation:
money - cud pay for whole yr of writing in wales
did not make much money
America gave little inspiration |
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1952
Caitlin came too, to make sure some money made it home |
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| 1953 - died of "pneumonia" probly actually doctors' heavy dose of morphine mixed with his alcohol consumption |
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November 3rd - began by drinking heavily and falling down stairs
November 4th - doctor gave him meds
November 8th - slipped into coma
NOvember 9, 1953 - died |
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