title: The Dylan Thomas Omnibus : Under Milk Wood', Poems, Stories and Broadcasts
author:  Dylan Thomas 
description: 'In the beginning was the three-pointed star, One smile of light across the empty face; One bough of bone across the rooting air, The substance forked that marrowed the first sun; And, burning cophers on the round of space, Heaven and hell mixed as they spun.' This is a rich collection of Dylan Thomas's best-loved poems and stories, as well as pieces he wrote for radio and magazines. The selection spans Thomas's writing lifetime, and it shows the full range of this tempestuous and meticulous artist who once cheerfully claimed that he had beast, angel and madman within him.
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  Under Milk Wood
  
  A Play for Voices
  
  DYLAN THOMAS
  
  Edited by Walford Davies and Ralph Maud  
  Introduction by Walford Davies
  
  A NEW DIRECTIONS BOOK
  
   **CONTENTS**
  
   _Brief Chronology_
  
   _Introduction_
  
  UNDER MILK WOOD
  
   _Explanatory Notes_
  
   _Textual Notes_
  
   _Acknowledgments_
  
   **BRIEF CHRONOLOGY**
  
  27 Oct 1914 | Dylan Marlais Thomas born in Swansea  
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  Sept 1925 | Enters Swansea Grammar School, where his father was Senior English
  Master  
  27 Apr 1930 | Starts the first of the 'Notebooks' into which he copies his
  early poems. (The Notebooks continued until Apr 1934)  
  Aug 1931 | Leaves school. Employed as Reporter on the _South Wales Evening
  Post_ (until Dec 1932)  
  Mar 1933 | First poem published in London ('And death shall have no dominion'
  in the _New English Weekly_ )  
  Aug 1933 | First visit to London  
  Sept 1933 | First poem published in 'Poet's Corner' of the _Sunday Referee_
  ('That Sanity be Kept'). Correspondence with Pamela Hansford Johnson