‘It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea…’
Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas’s best-known and best-loved work. Completed in 1953 at the very end of his life, this ‘play for voices’ tells the story of the seaside village of Llareggub over one spring day. We meet curious characters such as Captain Cat, who dreams of his drowned seafellows, and Nogood Boyo, who dreams of nothing at all. Lyrical, funny and moving, Under Milk Wood is a rich modern pastoral, a tapestry of dreams and reality which has captured the imaginations of generations of readers.
This definitive edition of a modern classic includes notes, selected criticism and a chronology of Thomas’s life and times alongside an authoritative introduction from Walford Davies.
‘We are not wholly bad or good
Who live our lives under Milk Wood…’
Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas’s best-known and best-loved work. Completed in 1953 at the very end of his life, this ‘play for voices’ tells the story of the seaside village of Llareggub over one spring day. We meet curious characters such as Captain Cat, who dreams of his drowned seafellows, and Nogood Boyo, who dreams of nothing at all. Lyrical, funny and moving, Under Milk Wood is a rich modern pastoral, a tapestry of dreams and reality which has captured the imaginations of generations of readers.
This definitive edition of a modern classic includes notes, selected criticism and a chronology of Thomas’s life and times alongside an authoritative introduction from Walford Davies.
‘We are not wholly bad or good
Who live our lives under Milk Wood…’
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A tour de force of oral poetry which oozes word pictures and onomatopoeic musicality
It would be hard for any work of art to communicate more directly and funnily and lovingly what it is like to be alive
Roguish, prancing, with blazing characters and lines. The words dizzied me, their grandeur, their wit
Dylan Thomas disturbed the roots of our language in an organic way and gave it a new vitality
A dazzling combination of poetic fireworks and music-hall humor
Roguish, prancing, with blazing characters and lines. The words dizzied me, their grandeur, their wit
A tour de force of oral poetry which oozes word pictures and onomatopoeic musicality
It would be hard for any work of art to communicate more directly and funnily and lovingly what it is like to be alive
A dazzling combination of poetic fireworks and music-hall humor
Dylan Thomas disturbed the roots of our language in an organic way and gave it a new vitality