![]() He had become a legendary figure, both for his work and the boisterousness of his life. Vincent's Hospital in New York City at the age of thirty-nine. A few days later, he collapsed in the Chelsea Hotel after a long drinking bout at the White Horse Tavern. They were later collected in Dylan Thomas: The Filmscripts (JM Dent & Sons, 1995). Thomas toured America four times, with his last public engagement taking place at the City College of New York. The company soon went bankrupt, but Thomas's scripts, "Me and My Bike," "Rebecca's Daughters," and "The Beach at Falesa," were made into films. ![]() ![]() He took his family to Italy, and while in Florence, he wrote In Country Sleep, And Other Poems (Dent, 1952), which includes his most famous poem, "Do not go gentle into that good night." When they returned to Oxfordshire, Thomas began work on three film scripts for Gainsborough Films. ![]() In 1947 Thomas was awarded a Traveling Scholarship from the Society of Authors. His father was an English Literature professor at the local grammar school and would often recite Shakespeare, fortifying Thomas's love for the rhythmic ballads of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. ![]() Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in Swansea, South Wales. ![]()
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