{"product_id":"dylan-thomas-a-collection-of-critical-essays-edited-by-c-b-cox","title":"'Dylan Thomas: A Collection of Critical Essays' edited by C.B. Cox","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"109\" data-end=\"531\"\u003eA small archaeological site of Dylan Thomas.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"109\" data-end=\"531\"\u003eThese old critical essay collections are interesting because they capture writers before they become fully embalmed by academia. You get arguments still in motion, critics trying to decide what Dylan Thomas actually \u003cem data-start=\"395\" data-end=\"400\"\u003ewas\u003c\/em\u003e rather than repeating whatever eventually calcified into literary consensus. There’s something refreshingly unfinished about that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"533\" data-end=\"1009\"\u003eThe contents here are strong for anyone genuinely interested in Thomas beyond the “rage, rage against the dying of the light” reduction. Essays on the Welsh context, the early poems, \u003cem data-start=\"716\" data-end=\"733\"\u003eUnder Milk Wood\u003c\/em\u003e, devotional influence, prose work, theatricality. It maps the machinery around the poems rather than just praising the lyricism. You can feel mid-century criticism still wrestling with Thomas’ excess, musicality, mysticism and reputation as both genius and self-created myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1011\" data-end=\"1235\"\u003eA widely circulated paperback when new, accidentally beautiful now. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1011\" data-end=\"1235\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1966 Spectrum paperback edition. Heavy visible shelf wear and edge wear from photos, but structurally intact. Interior clean for age.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44571976138835,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext_86.png?v=1778107342","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/dylan-thomas-a-collection-of-critical-essays-edited-by-c-b-cox","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}