Dylan Thomas Collection List

Early Works and Periodical Contributions

The original editions are preserved in Swansea Library and are available for consultation.

The Song of the Mischievous Dog

Swansea Grammar School Magazine - December 1925

A complete run of the Swansea Grammar School Magazine is held in the library. It includes numerous contributions from Dylan Thomas. The "Song of the Mischievous Dog" was his first published poem.

And Death Shall Have No Dominion

The New English Weekly - 18th May 1933

His first published poem in a literary magazine.

The Enemies

New Stories June - July 1934

An early short story later included in his book "The Map of Love" 1939.

Prologue to an Adventure

Wales No. 1 - Summer 1937

A Short Story.

The Tree

The Adelphi - December 1934

A Short Story reprinted in book form in "The Map of Love", 1939, but with a number of alterations and deletions.

Fern Hill

Horizon - October 1945

First printing, this poem has been much reprinted and translated.

In the White Giant's Thigh - a poem

Atlantic Volume 188, No. 3 - 1951

Dylan contributed to a number of issues of this American periodical.

Llareggub: a piece for radio perhaps

Botteghe Oscure - April 1952

An Italian literary periodical, this is the first half of what was to become "Under Milk Wood". It is followed by a letter from the author outlining the plan of the whole work.

I Am Going to Read Aloud

The London Magazine Volume 3, No. 9 - September 1956

An introduction to a poetry reading by Dylan Thomas at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston on 3 July 1952.

Poetry

Collected Poems, 1934 - 1952

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1952

Earlier volumes of poetry are also available as part of the collection.

Prose/Plays

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1940

Short Stories

The Doctor and the Devils

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1953

Stories in the form of film scenarios

Quite Early One Morning

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1954

Stories previously radio scripts

Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1954

A Prospect of the Sea and other stories and prose writing

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1955

Adventures in the Skin Trade

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1955

A novel

Collected Stories

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1983

Filmscripts and Broadcasts

Dylan Thomas: the filmscripts

Edited by John Ackerman

J. M. Dent - 1995

Dylan Thomas: the broadcasts

Edited by Ralph Maud

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1991

Bibliographies

Dylan Thomas in Print: A Bibliographical History

Maud, Ralph

J. M. Dent & Sons - 1970

Assisted by Albert Glover (with) appendix 1969 - 71; compiled by Walford Davies

Welsh Dylan, Dylan Thomas's life, writing and his Wales

Ackerman, John

John Jones - 1979

Dylan Thomas in America

Brinnin, John Malcolm

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1956

Dylan Thomas's Places; A biographical and literary guide

Davies, James A.

Christopher Davies - 1997

Dylan Thomas

Ferris, Paul

Hodder & Stoughton - 1977

The Life of Dylan Thomas

Fitzgibbon, Constantine

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1965

My friend Dylan Thomas

Jones, Daniel

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1977

Dylan Thomas: A New Life

Lycett, Andrew

Weidenfeld and Nicolson - 2003

The Death of Dylan Thomas

Nashold, James & Tremlett, George

Mainstream Publishing - 1997

The Days of Dylan Thomas

Read, Bill

Weidenfeld & Nicholson - 1964

Dylan Thomas: poet of his people

Sinclair, Andrew

Michael Joseph - 1975

Double Drink Story: Life with Dylan Thomas

Thomas, Caitlin

Virago Press - 1998

Criticisms of His Works

A Dylan Thomas companion: Life, Poetry and Prose

Ackerman, John

Macmillan - 1991

Dylan: Druid of the broken body

Davies, Aneirin Talfan

Christopher Davies - 1977

A Reference Companion to Dylan Thomas

Davies, Jones A

Greenwood Press, 1998

Dylan Thomas: new critical essays

Davies, Walford

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1972

Dylan Thomas: Contemporary Critical Essays

Edited by Goodby, John & Wigginton, Chris

Palgrave - 2001

The World of Dylan Thomas

Emery, Clark

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1971

Where have the old words got me? Explications of Dylan Thomas's "Collected Poems"

Maud, Ralph

University of Wales Press, 2003

Dylan Thomas Special Issue

New Welsh Review No. 16

The Prose Writings of Dylan Thomas

Peach, Linden

Macmillan Press, 1988

Dylan Thomas: dog among the fairies

Treece, Henry

Drummond, 1949

The Letters of Dylan Thomas

Letters to Vernon Watkins

Faber & Faber - 1957

Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas

Edited by Constantine Fitzgibbon

Dent & Sons Ltd. - 1966

The Collected Letters

Edited by Paul Ferris

J. M. Dent & Sons - 1985

The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas

J. M. Dent - 2001

Translations

The Collection contains numerous translations of "Under Milk Wood" and many of the poems in various European languages, together with a number of Japanese translations.

Illustrations

Swansea Reference Library holds some copyrighted photographs and postcards of Dylan, his family and friends as well as of locations in Swansea that are associated with him.

Manuscripts

The majority of original manuscript material by Dylan Thomas is held in various libraries in the U. S.A., including Texas which houses the majority, Buffalo and New York. Swansea Libraries has copies of much of this material, for example:

· Deaths and Entrances

· Into her Lying Down Head

· It Was my Thirtieth Year to Heaven

· Once it Was the Colour of Saying

· A Conversation about Christmas

· Poem on his Birthday

Sound Recordings

Various sound recordings of Dylan's works are included in the Collection.