Villanelle protagonist Stephen Dedalus. William Empson revived the villanelle more seriously in the 1930s, and his contemporaries and friends W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas also picked up the form. Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night" is perhaps the most renowned villanelle of all. Theodore Roethke and Sylvia Plath wrote villanelles in the 1950s and 1960s, and Elizabeth Bishop wrote a particularly famous and influential villanelle, "One Art," in 1976. The villanelle reached an unprecedented level of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of the New Formalism. Since then, many contemporary poets have written
Do not go gentle festival and the poets former home at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive. The festival concentrates on literature and music, but also features theatre, film and art. The program is mainly made up of Welsh musicians, poets and writers but has also featured acts from as far afield as Ireland, Denmark and Brittany. Headline acts have included comedian Jo Brand, Twin Town director Kevin Allen, poet John Hegley, comedian Phil Kay and Hollywood actor Rhys Ifans Do not go gentle festival Do Not Go Gentle festival is an annual arts festival, founded in 2012, that takes place in Swansea, Wales. The festival is held