Dylan Thomas, certainly, would approve of the way he is raging against the dying of the light. Kobe could not stop for Death, so Death is kindly stopping for Kobe. And so on.

Claire [reading a Dylan Thomas poem]: Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas’s celebrated lines are a powerful companion-piece to yesterday’s poem by W B Yeats. The defiant tone is the same, though Yeats was unreconciled to his own old age; while in Thomas ...

Although her family had never read the Dylan Thomas poem, they wanted her to “rage, rage against the dying of the light”. As I witnessed this lady’s misery, I couldn’t quite understand why ...

This year’s centenary of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’ birth is being celebrated with events that pay tribute to his literary legacy. The year-long commemoration has already inspired a new ...

At the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas, A Poet In New York writer Andrew Davies talks about writing about his idol's life and final, dark, days.

Dylan, by Sidney Michaels, covers Dylan Thomas' last few years, when the man who had put his life force into his poetry was putting a death wish into his life. T. S. Eliot once said that to think ...

Dylan Thomas implored his readers to "rage, rage against the dying of the light". And newly uncovered photos, lost in a drawer for decades, show the Welsh poet heeding his own words as he wrecked ...

A school exercise book that had once belonged to Dylan Thomas, filled with 16 of his poems in his handwriting, was bought by my then-employers, Swansea University, for £85,000 and given to me to ...

I never understood or liked the poem by Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night." He says, “Do not go gentle into that good night; old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage ...