Quite Early One MorningIn England and America Dylan Thomas made his art and personality widely known through public readings, radio broadcasts and recordings. Many of the 25 short stories, autobiographical sketches and essays in Quite Early One Morning, a volume planned by Thomas shortly before his death, were read by him on such occasions. They are alive with his verbal magic, his intense perception of life, his gargantuan humor and with the very ring of his voice. Included in this collection of prose pieces are such favorites as the hilarious "A Visit to America," the account of a small boy's marvelous day's outing--"A Story," and the memorable "A Child's Christmas in Wales" which has been called 'the twentieth century Christmas Carol.' Other pieces show Thomas's power as a sensitive critic of poetry and as an exponent of his own intent as a poet. |
Contents
A Childs Christmas in Wales | 14 |
A Story | 29 |
Laugharne | 42 |
Our Country | 55 |
Wilfred Owen | 75 |
Artists of Wales | 94 |
Three Poems | 113 |
How To Begin a Story | 132 |
A Visit to America | 146 |
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Alun Lewis BARMAID beautiful bells birds boys called cats chapel charabanc Christmas cloud cold comic Cribbe dance dark dead death dogs door dusk Dylan Thomas English eyes Festival fire flying Franklyn girls Glyn Jones green grey hands hear Henry Vaughan heron hill Idris Davies Jones kitchen knew Laugharne light live London looked moon mother NARRATOR never night novel once Penelope Devereux poems poet poetry Porthcawl Prothero rain REBECCA'S DAUGHTERS remember river S. J. Perelman sand Sentry shouted Sidney silent sing sleep smell smile smoke snow Sorrel and Son stones stood stopped story street T. S. Eliot tell there's town trees uncle verse voice W. H. Davies Wales walked Weazley Welsh Welshmen whistling Wilfred Owen wind women words write wrote Young Thomas