Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is a collection of short prose stories written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, first published by Dent on 4 April 1940. The first paperback copy appeared in 1948, published by the British Publishers Guild. All of the stories are autobiographical and all are set in the writer's native Swansea in South Wales. Written over a number of years, the often comic stories show glimpses of his life, from early childhood up to his teens as a young reporter for the "South Wales Daily Post".
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce showed some of the draft chapters to Ettore Schmitz, one of his language students, as an exercise. Schmitz, himself a respected writer, was impressed and with his encouragement Joyce continued work on the book. In 1911 Joyce flew into a fit of rage over the continued refusals by publishers to print "Dubliners" and threw the manuscript of "Portrait" into the fire. It was saved by a "family fire brigade" including his sister Eileen. "Chamber Music", a book of Joyce's poems, was published in 1907. Joyce showed, in his own words, "a scrupulous meanness" in his use of materials for