A WELSH EPIC
THOMAS, Dylan Under Milk Wood. London: J.M Dent & Sons Ltd.1954
8vo. Original publishers brown cloth with gilt title lettering to spine, Green dust jacket with white border and black and white photograph of author to rear jacket, pp. [x] 101, Very minimal rubbing to top and bottom of spine, Repaired marginal tear to lower panel and slight chipping to head of spine, otherwise intenrally bright and near fine.
First edition
"It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black…
A uniquely lyrical account of a spring day in the fictional Welsh seaside village of Llareggub, Thomas' "Play written for Voices", was completed when the writer was a month from his premature death at thirty-nine, although he had been committed to its development intermittently for a decade.
Dylan Thomas' better known and most popular works, Under Milk Wood is constructed in a transgressive rythmic structure, bawdy and playful, with it's form and comedy drawn out of a variety of some of oral poetrys most loved voices.
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