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Dylan Marlais Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1914. He was the son of Florence Hannah, a seamstress, and David John Thomas, a teacher. He was the youngest child in his family and he has a sister Nancy, who was eight years his elder. The red-brick semi-detached house at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, in which Thomas was born and lived until he was 19, had been bought by his parents in the respectable area of the Uplands a few months before his birth. His childhood was spent in Swansea, and he knew the western suburbs of Swansea, particularly nearby Cwmdonkin Park very well. he liked to spend his summers at his maternal aunt Ann's dairy farm in Carmarthenshire. The experience of these summers would later become the source of his inspiration of the 1945 lyrical poem "Fern Hill". Thomas had bronchitis and asthma in childhood and struggled with these throughout his life. (Wikipedia) In …show more content…
They settled in to life at Sea View in Laugharne and had their first child Llewelyn in 1939. Their relationship was volatile. Both Dylan and Caitlin had affairs throughout their marriage, and each resented the other's while excusing their own behavior. In March 1943 the couple's daughter, Aeronwy, was born in London. She was named after the River Aeron, which flows through Cardiganshire. Six years later, when the Thomas family had settled in Laugharne in 1949, Caitlin was expecting their third child. Colm Garan Thomas was born that July.(BBC) In 1934, Dylan left his hometown to London to begin his writing career at 17. When he was 20, he published his first collection of poems “eighteen poems”. Then an American publisher made his last three books a collection named “the world I live in”. He published his most important poem “deaths and entrances” in 1946. Except writing poems, he also wrote some short stories and scripts for film and radio. He was very famous in America, and his collection of poems are always well selling in the country.

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