Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog "the atmosphere of schoolboy smut and practical jokes and poetry is evoked with lingering accuracy but with nothing more". Critic Jacob Korg later commented that "taken as a group, [the stories] seem to trace the child's emergence from his domain of imagination and secret pleasures into an adult world where he observes suffering, pathos, and dignity". The book has been described as showing Thomas' "waggish humor at its best, his exuberance & verbal magic in spectacular display". Apart from "Under Milk Wood", the book is "probably the most famous Dylan Thomas book published during his lifetime... certainly the most loved
Portrait of a Young Man (Lotto, Accademia) Portrait of a Young Man (Lotto, Accademia) Portrait of a Young Man or Portrait of a Gentleman in his Study is a c.1530 painting by Lorenzo Lotto, now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice, whose collections it entered from a private collection in 1930. It is known in Italian as "Giovane malato", literally "The Ill Young Man" - the flower with leaves is thought to be a symbol of disappointment in love or an illness, perhaps melancholy. The subject also turns his back on worldly pleasures (symbolised by a hunting horn, a dead bird and a lute). More so than