The Last Romantic
YLAN THOMAS wrote a handful of poems which are snowy summits towering above the plain of literature | and equalled only by poems as great as The Ancient Mariner. By means of the radio and his own wonderful reading voice he had won for himself an exceptional following for a modern poet. | His early death, the death of the last. romantic, has meant the shoring up of all that he did, these things assuming | an importance they might not have had had he gone on writing "for the love of | man and in praise of God," This; at any rate, is largely the way I interpret the. enormous success of Under Milk Wood: | a play for voices, which we have now been able to hear over the ZBs, What- | ever my final reaction, because I want to hear the play again, Under Milk Wood is not in the same flight as Thomas's best and most lucid poems, where the walls of the flesh dissolve to disclose the wash of a mystical sea. In the play the flesh is sojevident that the BBC has thought fit te cut whole pages from the original script, I say this modestly both because of the repute of the play and also because nothing could have pleased me more than for Westcliff’s "famous last words" to have been a tribute to Dylan Thomas.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 810, 4 February 1955, Page 11
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231The Last Romantic New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 810, 4 February 1955, Page 11
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