The Days of Dylan Thomas [antikvár]

Acknowledgments Like every author, I am deeply indebted for help that cannot be adequately acknowledged. I am particularly grateful for the kindnesses of Caitlin Thomas, Yvonne Macnamara, Pamela Hansford Johnson, A. E. Trick, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Kent E. Thompson. A number of people in Wales were extraordinarily generous to me, chief among whom were Ronald Cour, Aneirin Talfan Davies, Gweveril Brace Dawkins, Gwynfor Evans, Rene Harding, Alfred Janes, Emrys Jones, Morley Jones, Ellis Lloyd, Christina March, Dr. Thomas Parry, Leslie M. Rees, Philip Richards, Margaret Anne Rogers, Ethel Ross, A. E. Savage, G. Froom Tyler, Gwen and Vernon Watkins and Ivy Williams. Friends of the poet in England who were equally generous included Sydney Box, John Davenport, T. 8. Eliot, Sir Arthur Elton, William Empson, Constantine FitzGibbon, Geoffrey Grigson, Wyn Henderson, David Higham, Mervyn Levy, Jack Lindsay, Cordelia Locke, Elisabeth Lutyens, Brigit Marnier, Bert Newlands, Roland Penrose, Keidrych Rhys, A. J. P. Taylor, and Donald Taylor. There was further help from Ruth Witt-Diamant in Tokyo, from Roberto Sanesi in Milan, and from Evgeni Evtushenko in Moscow. And in America I am grateful for the special help of William Abrahams, Gertrude Buckman, Robert Craft, Elizabeth Reitell Hannum, Jutta Heyne, James Laughlin IV, Marianne Mantell, Ralph Maud, Howard Moss, William Moynihan, Mary Golden Read, P. W. Roberts, and John L. Sweeney. For permission to reprint copyright material the thanks of the author and publisher are offered the following: Adam international Review for passages by Pamela Hansford Johnson, Elisabeth Lutyens, Mario Luzi, Runia Sheila MacLeod, and Dylan Thomas (Nos. 236 and 238 [1953]). The Adelphi for passages by Rayner Heppenstall (Feb., 1935) and John Arlott (Vol. 30, No. 2 [1954]). Books for passages by E. F. Bozman (Dec., 1953). British Broadcasting Corporation for passages by Edwin Muir, The Listener (Feb. 27, 1935). J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., New Directions, and the Dylan Thomas Literary Executors for passages by Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning (1954), Under Milk Wood (1954), Letters to Vernon Watkins (1957), and Collected Poems (1952). J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., for passages from Ralph