Thomas & Auden

Thanks to the help of the students in ENG206: English Literature, Spring 2003, I am pleased to present a list of sites related to Thomas and Auden. These two authors, both studied on the same day in our class seem to have little to link them. On the contrary, students found there were several points of connection that added depth and clarity to each poets' work. Thomas is listed first, then the links to Auden. Each individual address (listed in no particular order) is accompanied by one (or more) reviews. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me. This site may change, so check back.

This is my site on Dylan Thomas. It has an autobiography on him and also has links to other sites that pertain to him and other poets of his era. --Chris Riccio

This website is an index for free articles about English and American literature. It has an alphabetical listing of 19th and 20th century American and British writers. I thought this site was useful because it has some useful background and articles on Dylan Thomas. --Lauren Harvey

This site gives a short biography on Dylan and then a chronology of his life that is quite detailed. This site also includes links to a chat area and message board about Thomas. --Lauren Belcher

this is a site dedicated to dylan thomas, it give a background information and his life in a chronological order of events. the last paragraph seems to be a more detailed and shows a quicker of the poets life and mentions that his themes, "Thomas's themes are traditional--love, death, mutability--and over the years he seemed to pass from religious doubt to joyous faith in God." --Diana Molnar

Here is the website as requested on Dylan Thomas, it is a website dedicated to his works and himself, its quite interesting as this reference library started its collection in 1950's it has most of his collections and a lot of information on Dylan Thomas the man. --Swapneel Rawal

I figured, how can I do any better than the guy's official site? Anything and everything you could want to know about the dude. Coolest thing I learned was that he died while he was getting a sponge bath, from some chick, not a bad way to go if you ask me... --Graham Kilburn

This website gives a brief history about Dylan Thomas. You can also purchase mugs, t-shirts, and post cards that deals with Thomas. They also offer a tour of where he lived and where he was buried. --Terence Thomas

This web site is about Thomas' poem do not go gentle. This web site has a word search for literary works, and has a short summary about the poem. --Stephanie Hill

Dylan Thomas through the Biography Project at PopCulture.com (link no longer available)

This site contains: biography and links to other Dylan Thomas sites. --Stephen Novak

this was a pretty cool site. it gave some background info on him and had links to his poems. they even had some mp3s of the poems u could download and listen to. they had a photo gallery as well. --allegra bonini

Here is a website on Dylan Thomas. It talks about his life, his works, and also has some pictures! --Lizette Martinez

This site includes background information on Dylan Thomas, along with favorite works from the site designer, to other poems and a large list of other works by Dylan Thomas. --Brian Reguera

A great website for general information a bout he poets life and works with links to other sources. --Darbi Shannon

The site discusses the many works Thomas Dylan wrote. At the age of 16, he left school to work as a reporter. His early works included The Map of Love ("rich in metaphors and intense emotions"), Deaths and Entrances ("using a bardic oracular voice"), and later down the road wrote In Country Sleep (which contains the poem we read for today, "Do Not Go Gentle...") and Collected poems. His most comic works is the prose portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. Dylan was a very famous prose, welsh writer. However, his overindulgence in liquor finally killed him while he was on tour in New York. --Brittany Hargrove

This website was fairly good, with an overview of W. H. Auden's life. There are links to some of his poems (complete text), as well as links to several other authors, including T. S. Eliot. There is also a picture of Auden. --Brianne Lyons

Gopnick begins ”When W. H. Auden died, in 1973, no one would have imagined that thirty years later he would come back as the poet of another age, our own. He seemed miserable and seedy then, having made a failed return to Oxford after two decades on St. Marks Place in the East Village and become the model of a modern poet who had lost his way and got stranded on an island of his own pet phrases.” This is a very Contemporary article displaying the generativity of the poet’s words and importance to our perceptions of like times. --Darbi Shannon

An essay from Slate by Eric McHenry discussing "September 1, 1939" in light of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. --Darbi Shannon

The W. H. Auden Society commemorates the life and work of one of the greatest poets in the English language. This web site offers a list of books by Wystan Hugh Auden, links to some of his poems, a selective list of recordings of his readings and of musical settings of his poems, and (to be added in the near future) a biography. Recent news of publications and events of interest to Auden's readers, reports, etc. --Darbi Shannon