Do not go gentle into that good night Do not go gentle into that good night "Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle, and the most famous work of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953). Though first published in the journal "Botteghe Oscure" in 1951, it was written in 1947 when Thomas was in Florence with his family. It was published, along with other stories previously written, as part of Thomas' "In Country Sleep, And Other Poems" of 1952. It has been suggested that the poem was written for Thomas' dying father, although he did not die until just
An Inquiry into the Good readers as the first truly creative work by a Japanese that did not merely repeat western ideas, and yet made use of modern thinking and terminology." However, according to Smart, the work was criticized by the philosopher Takahashi Satomi, who found the subjectivism of "pure experience" too psychological. An Inquiry into the Good An Inquiry into the Good, also known as A Study of Good, () is a 1911 book by the Japanese philosopher Kitaro Nishida. The work has been described as a masterpiece. Graham Parkes, writing in "The Oxford Companion to Philosophy" (2005), described "An Inquiry into the Good"