Dylan Thomas was a major poet of the 'Neo-Romantic' poets of the 1940's. The Neo-Romantics were challenging the high Modernism of the 1920's and discursive, intellectual styles of the 1930's. Thomas had the mystical intuitions, emotional intensity, pe...
Dylan Thomas was a major poet of the 'Neo-Romantic' poets of the 1940's. The Neo-Romantics were challenging the high Modernism of the 1920's and discursive, intellectual styles of the 1930's. Thomas had the mystical intuitions, emotional intensity, personal utterance, and natural imagery of a poet in the Romantic tradition. But in the same poems he was also a poet of Metaphysical wit and Symbolist technique.