The Collected Stories - Dylan Thomas - 300 / 365 of reading one short story every day.

Dylan Thomas was born in 1914, in Swansea, South Wales as a son of an English literature professor who loved to quote Shakespeare, Edgar Poe, Yeats and Hopkins.  Perhaps that could have been an inspiration for him being a junior reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. By his late teens he had written a huge collection of poems.


His poems had a personality which stemmed out of his life experiences. And they also bordered a lot on strong emotions, varied imagery and intensity. 

Apart from poetry, Thomas also recorded radio shows and wrote scripts for the BBC.

The Collected Stories

There is a great variety in Dylan Thomas's stories. They range from a dark time of his youth to family celebrations during occasions and gatherings. These different and varied situations are written and depicted in The Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive. With a lot of macabre elements, the stories really border on what many readers commented as ‘scandal of fantasy’.

His Swansea childhood is shown in some of the stories and there is satirical humour in Under Milk Wood. Also here is the fiction from Quite Early One Morning, a collection planned by Thomas shortly before his death.

Altogether there are more than forty stories, providing a picture of small town Wales and showing Dylan Thomas in all his intriguing variety-sombre fantasist, joyous word-spinner, comedian of small town caricatures.



Adapted from Dylan Thomas fan blog.