Which British poet wrote ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’?
A Child's Christmas in Wales A Child's Christmas in Wales A Child's Christmas in Wales is a piece of prose by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas recorded by Thomas in 1952. Emerging from an earlier piece he wrote for BBC Radio, the work is an anecdotal reminiscence of a Christmas from the viewpoint of a young boy, portraying a nostalgic and simpler time. It is one of Thomas's most popular works. As with his poetry, "A Child's Christmas in Wales" does not have a tight narrative structure but instead uses descriptive passages in a fictionalised autobiographical style, designed to create an emotive sense of the
A Child's Christmas in Wales poet. His radio work provided a minor source of income; in the early 1940s he began writing radio scripts and in late 1942 he wrote a 15-minute talk that was broadcast by the Welsh BBC in February 1943 titled "Reminiscences of Childhood". This was followed by "Quite Early one Morning" in 1944, recorded in Wales and produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies. After being well received in Wales, Davies offered the recording of "Quite Early one Morning" to the BBC in London for national broadcast but the producers at the BBC were unimpressed by what was described as Dylan's "breathless poetic