Les habitants d'un village gallois dorment, c'est la nuit. Pêcheurs, institutrice, facteur, boulanger, tous vivent dans leurs rêves ce qu'ils n'oseraient même pas imaginer dans la réalité. Leurs voeux les plus fous se bousculent dans leur sommeil. Au matin, chacun reprend son train-train. Mais leurs rêves secrets ont laissé des traces. Des jalousies les submergent, des désirs fous les traversent, des amours contrariés les rongent.

Au Bois Lacté

Commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD takes the form of an emotive and hilarious account of a spring day in the fictional Welsh seaside village of Llareggub. 
We learn of the inhabitants' dreams and desires, their loves and regrets. The play introduces us to characters such as Captain Cat who dreams of his drowned former seafellows and Nogood Boyo who dreams of nothing at all. It is a unique and touching depiction of a village that has 'fallen head over bells in love'. The First Voice narration reveals the ordinary world of daily happenings and events, while the Second Voice conveys the intimate, innermost thoughts of the fascinating folk of Llareggub.
There have been myriad productions of UNDER MILK WOOD over the years and Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Elizabeth Taylor, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Tom Jones have all starred in radio, stage or film adaptations.
Dylan Thomas's classic radio play reprinted to celebrate the centenary of his birth. A true masterpiece that has never been out of print.

Under Milk Wood

"The Classic Collection of Dylan Thomas: Stories and Poems" is a literary treasure trove, gathering the rich tapestry of Thomas's evocative storytelling and poignant poetry. At its heart lies "A Child's Christmas in Wales, " a nostalgic masterpiece that weaves the magic and innocence of childhood into the fabric of a Welsh Christmas.

"Under Milk Wood" stands as one of Thomas's crowning achievements, a radio drama that unveils the lives and dreams of the fictional Welsh seaside town of Llareggub. The language dances with lyrical beauty as Thomas captures the quirks and passions of the townspeople.

The collection further showcases Thomas's prose prowess with "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, " a series of autobiographical stories blending humor and introspection. Throughout, his poems, known for their vivid imagery and profound lyricism, include timeless pieces that resonate with the human experience.

This anthology, illustrated to enhance the reading experience, invites both devoted fans and new readers to immerse themselves in the poetic landscapes and narrative brilliance of Dylan Thomas. It's a celebration of a literary legacy that continues to captivate hearts and minds with its lyrical beauty and insightful reflections on life, love, and the passage of time."

Contents:

Stories

After the Fair

The Tree

The True Story

The Enemies

The Dress

The Visitor

The Vest

The Burning Baby

The Orchards

The End of the River

The Lemon

The Horse's Ha

The School for Witches

The Mouse and the Woman

A Prospect of the Sea

The Holy Six

Prologue to an Adventure

The Map of Love

In the Direction of the Beginning

An Adventure from a Work in Progress

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

The Peaches

A Visit to Grandpa's

Patricia, Edith, and Arnold

The Fight

Extraordinary Little Cough

Just Like Little Dogs

Where Tawe Flows

Who Do You Wish Was With Us?

Old Garbo

One Warm Saturday

Adventures in the Skin Trade

A Fine Beginning

Plenty of Furniture

Four Lost Souls

Quite Early One Morning

A Child's Christmas in Wales

Holiday Memory

The Crumbs of One Man's Year

Return Journey

The Followers

Poems

Note

Prologue

I see the boys of summer

When once the twilight locks no longer

A process in the weather of the heart

Before I knocked

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower

My hero bares his nerves

Where once the waters of your face

If I were tickled by the rub of love

Our eunuch dreams

Especially when the October wind

When, like a running grave

From love's first fever to her plague

In the beginning

Light breaks where no sun shines

I fellowed sleep

I dreamed my genesis

My world is pyramid

All all and all the dry worlds lever

I, in my intricate image

This bread I break

Incarnate devil

Today, this insect

The seed-at-zero

Shall gods be said to thump the clouds

Here in this spring

Do you not father me

Out of the sighs

Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo's month

Was there a time

Now

Why east wind chills

A grief ago

Ears in the turrets hear

How soon the servant sun

Foster the light

The hand that signed the paper

Should lanterns shine

I have longed to move away

Find meat on bones

Grief thief of time

And death shall have no dominion

Then was my neophyte

Altarwise by owl-light

Because the pleasure-bird whistles

I make this in a warring absence

When all my five and country senses see

We lying by seasand

It is the sinners' dust-tongued bell

O make me a mask

The spire cranes

After the funeral

Once it was the colour of saying

Not from this anger

How shall my animal

The tombstone told when she died

On no work of words

A saint about to fall

'If my head hurt a hair's foot'

Twenty-four years

The conversation of prayers

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London

Poem in October

This side of the truth

To Others than You

Love in the Asylum

Unluckily for a death

The hunchback in the park

Into her lying down head

Do not go gentle into that good night

Deaths and Entrances

A Winter's Tale

On a Wedding Anniversary

There was a saviour

On the Marriage of a Virgin

In my craft or sullen art

Ceremony After a Fire Raid

Once below a time

When I woke

Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man Aged a Hundred

Lie still, sleep becalmed

Vision and Prayer

Ballad of the Long-legged Bait

Holy Spring

Fern Hill

In Country Sleep

Over Sir John's hill

Poem on His Birthday

Lament

In the White Giant's Thigh

The Classic Collection of Dylan Thomas. Stories and Poems. Illustrated - A Child's Christmas in Wales, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Do not go gentle into that good night and others

«C'est son monde intérieur que Dylan Thomas nous offre dans ses poèmes. Un monde d'images poétiques et de mots imagés. Mais comment définir ce monde unique et universel ?Ce monde virtuel et pourtant si familier ? [...] Cet "autre" monde n'est pas celui de la mort. C'est celui de la naissance : partition, parturition première. Le monde que Dylan Thomas reconstruit pour nous, c'est celui que nous avons déserté peu après notre entrée dans l'humaine condition. C'est notre autre soi, le vrai - celui auquel nous avons renoncé - trop tôt, trop vite. Le poète, "artisan sacré", nous rappelle le "Paradis perdu", celui que nous avons tenu dans nos mains - mais que nous n'avons su accepter ni aimer. Cet autre soi : au carrefour de l'illusion et de la réalité, ce monde où nous faisions corps avec le mystère originel, avec la magie de la Création. La Poésie, n'est-ce pas d'abord cela : parole des origines, parole perdue, genèse, Genèse ?» Alain Suied.

Vision et prière et autres poèmes

Oeuvres

C’était l’après-midi de la veille de Noël et j’étais dans le jardin de Madame Prothero, à guetter les chats avec son fils Jim. Il neigeait. Il neigeait toujours à Noël... Le grand poète Dylan Thomas se souvient des Noëls de son enfance dans ce beau texte devenu un classique. Un parfum de Noël authentique, de Noël d’antan, que restitue Peter Bailey avec toute la fraîcheur joyeuse et délicate de ses aquarelles.

Un Noël d'enfant au Pays de Galles

Le présent volume propose un choix de lettres d'un des plus grands poètes gallois du XXe siècle, exclusivement adressées à ses amoureuses.

Lettres d’amour à quelques-unes

Poèmes extraits des "Collected poems" ainsi que des recueils : "Poet in the making" et "The poems"

Au Bois Lacté

Résumé

Plus de livres de Dylan Thomas

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