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falsify” (UD, 108). Sin embargo, tiene problemas de dicción “Sisson accordingly
had problems with his diction, and carne up with solutions that Cox did not
much like”. (UD, 239), y puntuación escasa (UD, 187)
Dylan Thomas (1914-56) es el antimodelo de poeta, el antagonista
poético arquetípico:
alguien
Dylan Thomas, the Angbo-Welsh poet, died of h¡s oxcesses in 1953. 1 cant be
impartial about blm, though 1 nover met blm. The smi of poetry thaf ho wrofe,
Ihe taste in poetry that he appealed fo and confirmed, aboye ah the notions
created by his notorious and disasfrous career as fo what is a normal relafion
belween a poef and his public-these 1 had fo sfruggbo wilh when 1 began writing
poems, and they obstruct me st¡ll, just as fhey obstruct (and in loo many cases
hayo destroyed) my contemporaries). (TTE, 63)
De ED. Thomas critica su sentimiento oceánico. Davie ve en él a
having yeasty and oxcited feelings abouf Englisb rural landscapes. And
Thomaswas nol alone in his generation in Ioarning from Edward Carpenfor and
bis disciples fo think fhat fhe oceanie feeling aroused by a prospocf of the
Kentish Weald or Salisbury Plain somehow bypassed tho whole tradifion of
European thinking about the supemafural; from Piafo and Aristotio fhrough
Aquinas and Berkeley fo F. H. Bradley. (UB 173)
En. Thomas celebra en sus poemas “the rustic and manorial England”
(US, 169), fomentando con ello “a forlaun English pastoralism... in the 1970s”
(UD, 176).
RS. Thomas (1913-) es aspirante a poeta nacional galés:
Buf fhe presumpfion is allowabbe, and indeod necessary, in the case of those
who aspirelo be natíonal poets. Tbe national poet holds up a glass in which bis
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