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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”



Few poems furnish such a wakeful breaking open of possibility more powerfully than “Do not go gentle into that good night” — a rapturous ode to the unassailable tenacity of the human spirit by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (October 27, 1914–November 9, 1953).

Written in 1947, Thomas’s masterpiece was published for the first time in the Italian literary journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951 and soon included in his 1952 poetry collection In Country Sleep, And Other Poems.
Read the story behind it and the poet’s own stirring reading of his masterpiece – Brain Pickings:

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