Dylan Thomas´s 'Fern Hill' as an Autobiographical Anglo-Welsh Poem

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Leipzig (Institut für Anglistik), language: English, abstract: We only know few renowned authors whose origins are in Wales. Apart from Raymond Williams, or Ken Follett, Dylan Thomas is one of the writers who has often been associated with Welsh literature and culture in the last sixty years; furthermore, he is possibly the most notable Welsh author. Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1914. After he left school at the age of sixteen, he started working as a journalist in Swansea. At that time, he also started writing, notably short stories and essays. Thomas also published radio-plays that have been broadcast on the BBC, such as 'Under Milk Wood', which portrays typical Welsh peasants. Moreover, he wrote numerous poems of which 'Fern Hill' is the best-known. It was part of a sequence of Thomas´s poetry, named 'Deaths and Entrances', released in 1945...