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...wasn't a pretty sight. Tousled and bloated, he was drunk much of the time, playing the buffoon and getting into fights at bars and parties, making crude passes at women and cadging money and favors that he rarely repaid. As Andrew Lycett recounts in Dylan Thomas (Overlook Press; 421 pages), he spawned bad debts, pilfered from and vandalized homes he stayed in, and insulted and embarrassed the people who tried the most to help him. It wouldn't be long before he died of alcohol poisoning in New York City...
...none was worse than his tempestuous Irish wife Caitlin, who was as much a drunk and a brawler as he was. In seaside towns in Wales and the bohemian precincts of London, they made do in squalid lodgings, haphazardly raising three children, bickering violently and competing in infidelity. Lycett suggests that the main cause of Thomas' self-destructiveness was his passionate, lethal co-dependency with Caitlin...
...colorful and poignant tale, but in Lycett's hands it goes on too long. The book would benefit from fewer pub crawls and more pointed analysis, especially of the poetry, on which Lycett is perfunctory. Thomas once said, "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me." Lycett gives us plenty of the beast and the madman. The angel is scarcely glimpsed. --By Christopher Porterfield
...months ago, it suddenly appeared that two of his very best works, The Haymakers and The Reapers painted in 1785, were about to be bought away from England. Their owner, Major John Lycett Wills, found that he had to sell off the pair. As recently as 1933 they had brought only £10 apiece; this year their worth was estimated at $1.8 million. Generously the owner offered them to London's Tate Gallery for a bargain price of $1.4 million, giving Director Sir Norman Reid till Christmas to raise the money...
...Lycett was the third player to take a double title, as a result of his victory, with L. A. Godfree, over Count de Gomar and Edouardo Flaquer, of Spain, in the men's doubles...