{"id":5797,"date":"2010-10-27T07:05:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T12:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2012-04-16T10:13:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:13:13","slug":"remembering-dylan-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/5797","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Dylan Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com\/hww\/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e2a7fb913881f0bbcfb8d7223c169ab6af7d02a24bea3b57d4244c0da7afa67e45350a31951b1a403&amp;fmt=C Thomas, Dylan Oct. 27, 1914-Nov. 9, 1953 Welsh poet\"><strong>Dylan Thomas<\/strong><\/a>, famous Welsh poet, was born on this day (Oct. 27) in 1914. He died on Nov. 9, 1953. He&#8217;s probably best remembered for &#8220;Do not go Gentle into that Good Night,&#8221; which was written for his father.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/15377\">read and hear the poem<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/index.php\">Poets.org<\/a> web site of the Academy of American Poets. You can search there for other poets and read or listen to selected works. The site also offers a poem a day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/dyth.jpg\" alt=\"cover of Dylan book\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Andersen Library has works by and about Dylan Thomas. Search <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/searchBasic\">HALCat<\/a>, the Harold Andersen Library Catalog, to find titles such as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=3TLuAAAAMAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>The poems of Dylan Thomas<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, PR6039 .H52 A17 1971), <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=NBqh9wFWZhQC&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>Portrait of the artist as a young dog<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, PR6039.H52 Z5 1968), and a biography of Thomas: <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=WhSoAAAAIAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>Dylan Thomas: A new life<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, PR6039.H52 Z763 2004).<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance with finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan Thomas, famous Welsh poet, was born on this day (Oct. 27) in 1914. He died on Nov. 9, 1953. He&#8217;s probably best remembered for &#8220;Do not go Gentle into that Good Night,&#8221; which was written for his father. You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/5797\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[875,324,178,3199,788,3198,658],"class_list":["post-5797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-around-the-world","tag-anniversaries","tag-authors","tag-books","tag-dylan-thomas","tag-poetry","tag-poets","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9489,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions\/9489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}