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...tear off my flesh, to get rid of this awful, horrifying skin we have . . ." He once wrote, melodramatically but perhaps not inaccurately: "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval . . ." In the poems that will remain long after the last alcoholic insult to that skin he loathed, there are many victories for the angelic of the three Dylan Thomases: Do not go gentle into that good night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Legend of Dylan Thomas | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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