Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh
poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that
good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", the
"play for voices", Under Milk Wood, and stories and radio broadcasts
such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
He became popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death in
New York. In his later life he acquired a reputation, which he encouraged, as a
"roistering, drunken and doomed poet".
