He was flamboyantly theatrical, an alcoholic and frequently engaged in public riots, and was openly emotional at his poetry readings. In fact, his attitude, coupled with his work, made him the prototype Romantic poet of the popular American imagination. Auden, Thomas was not concerned with exhibiting themes of social and intellectual issues, and his writing, with its intense lyricism and highly charged emotion, has more in common with the Romantic tradition.
Thomas also worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC. It was during this time, in his late teens, that Thomas wrote more than half of his collected poems. By December of 1932, he left his job at the Post and decided to concentrate on his poetry full-time. He dropped out of school at sixteen to become a junior reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. Fascinated by language, he excelled in English and reading but neglected other subjects. Lawrence‘s poetry, impressed by vivid descriptions of the natural world. Thomas was an introverted and undistinguishable child. His father was an English Literature professor. Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in Swansea, South Wales.
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