Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive

Mathematik auch hier, bei Dylan Thomas – ein wenig anders:

Here we go again: the early lyrical brilliance in suburban Swansea – „the Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive“, he called himself; the drink, from the start – by the time he was 20 he was on a pint of bitter for each of his years every day; the descent upon Soho and Fitzrovia, and the marriage to someone drunker even than he – Dylan and Caitlin, begetters and prophets of Sid and Nancy; their long binge, blurred and doomed, of cadging, gatecrashing, drinking, drugging and sex; the squalid seaside idyll in Wales; the orgiastic buffoonery in America; the swansong of Under Milk Wood; the death at the Chelsea Hotel, aged 39.
Lyric poets are like mathematicians, and tend to have done by their mid-twenties. / The Telegraph 28.12.03

Dylan Thomas: a New Life
Author: Andrew Lycett
434pp, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £20
ISBN 0297607936