Dylan Thomas was just a sad old caricature, say Welsh academics THE CRITICS HAVE THEIR SAY

From: The Independent - London | Date: August 27, 2001| Author: Anna Whitney | Copyright information

ONE OF Wales' leading literary figures has launched an attack on Dylan Thomas, claiming the country's best-known poet was an image- obsessed caricature addicted to the "three Welsh Ss" of "singing, swinging and shagging".

Not only his personality but also many of the poetic phrases for which Thomas is best known are subjected to a critical mauling in a television documentary to be shown in Wales on Friday.

Terence Hawkes, emeritus professor of literature at Cardiff University, ...

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