The event sent Thomas to England in the summer of 1933 to meet with editors of various English literary magazines. His poem "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" was published in 1933 in the New English Weekly, marking his first international publication. Remarkably, about two-thirds of Thomas' oeuvre is from his late teens. His position with the Post didn't last long, though, as he quit in December 1932 and turned his attention away from journalism and back to poetry, now a full-time pursuit. In 1931, at the age of 16, Thomas left school to become a junior reporter at the South Wales Daily Post. When he was around 16 years old, he began copying his early poems into what would become known as his notebooks-a practice that continued until 1934, and contributed to several of his first collections (beginning with 18 Poems, published in 1934). Early YearsÄylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in Swansea, Wales. Thomas was in high demand for his animated readings, but debt and heavy drinking took their toll, and he died in New York City while on tour in 1953, at age 39. Thomas' prose includes Under Milk Wood (1954) and A Child's Christmas in Wales (1955). His most famous poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," was published in 1952, but his reputation was solidified years earlier. Welshman Dylan Thomas was a reporter and prominent writer in the early 20th century.
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