Influence of Romantic Poets on Dylan Thomas

The Romantic period in English literature is usually considered to extend from 1798, when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their Lyrical Ballads, to 1832, when Sir Walter Scott died. The Romantic impulse extended beyond these dates, however, and can be seen in a variety of art forms, from the music of the latter half of the nineteenth century to the Romantic impulses of the Impressionists and post-Impressionists. The Romantic period was a turbulent era politically and socially as England was changing from its former status as an agricultural society to a modern industrial state where the balance of economic power shifted to large-scale employers. The French Revolution was another impetus for the development of the Romantic spirit, a spirit more egalitarian than the previous era. Yet, England was not becoming more egalitarian but was indeed more repressive during the period of the wars with France, but new classes were coming into being and demanding their share of the power of the state (Abrams et al. 1-3). The

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s known always to be in debt. He was invited to tour America in 1950, and he made three tours across America to give readings (Korg 21). Near the end of his life, Thomas was invited to write a libretto for an opera by Igor Stravinsky, and he agreed to do it. by this time, though, he was finding it difficult to produce any work at all. He made money reading poetry but dribbled it away. He and Stravinsky discussed an idea based on the "re-creation of the world," perhaps by visitors from space who would arrive on Earth and begin anew (Ferris 291). He was beset by terrors that seemed to have no source, and he drank to control them. Drinking was his means of escape, and yet he could not drink now without becoming sick. He spent a good deal of time in bed and suffered from hallucinations. On his last day he went out and drank 18 whiskeys, then went to sleep. He lapsed into unconsciousness, and after being in a coma for four days, he died of cerebral poisoning from the alcohol he had imbibed. His body was returned to Laugharne and buried in St. Martin's Churchyard. His work Adventures in the Skin Trade and his "Elegies" remained unfinished when he died (Korg 24). THE POEMS "Fern Hill" exhibits the poet's strong feeling, stron
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