->''Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, \\
Time held me green and dying \\
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.''

'''Dylan Thomas''' was a Welsh {{poet|ry}}, born in 1914 and dead by 1953. His poetry is notable for its tendency towards obscurity, its gothic, surreal tone and its rhythmic, infectious cadence. His most famous poem is the [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] for DoNotGoGentle.

!! His books available today include...

* ''Collected Poems'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''[[{{Shout Out}} A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog]]'': Following the model of Creator/JamesJoyce's ''Literature/{{Dubliners}}'' (although Thomas insisted he never read a word of Joyce), this auto{{biograph|y}}ical collection of {{short stor|y}}ies tracks an AuthorAvatar as he navigates the turmoil of adolescence and disappointment.
* ''Quite Early One Morning'': A posthumous collection of fictions, interviews and criticis ms. Includes what is arguably his greatest story, "A Child's Christmas in Wales".
* ''Under Milk Wood'': A humorous play, it accounts a strange day in a coastal Welsh town.
* ''Adventures in the Skin Trade'': A slightly surreal novella about a young man trying to become a publisher in Cardiff.
* ''Rebecca's Daughters'': A radio play about the eponymous criminal group.
!! His life and work give examples of the following tropes...

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: ''Under Milk Wood'' is set in the fictional village of Llareggub (pronounced Khlar - regg - ib). This looks like a real Welsh place name to the untrained eye, but try reading it backwards ...
* InfantImmortality: Purposefully averted. A handful of his poems ("A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" and "The Conversation of Prayer", to name a couple) deal with dead children.
* ReligiousHorror: Much of his poetry is grotesque, an effect he achieved by juxtaposing religious imagery with descriptions of filth and decay.