Word: dylan
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Between forays to a Washington psychiatric hospital to sign Ezra Pound (see BOOKS) or to London to snag T. S. Eliot, the partners did their own taping, cover designing, package wrapping and mailing. Most of the orders were for their initial recording, a reverberating reading by Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas, whom they approached by sending him a note after a poetry reading ("We just signed our initials," recalls Marianne, "so he wouldn't know we were unbusinesslike females"). After five days of hounding him, they finally got the poet's agreement, and the six records he turned...
...prose is Welsh; he can be language-drunk or sly with bawdry, as Dylan Thomas was when he named the village in Under Milk Wood "Llareggub." As for the roarious Jethro, he is engaging as a boy, but loses credibility as he grows older; he is forever lapsing into derring-do, despite the derring-don'ts of his womenfolk. At the end, he escapes a platoon of dragoons and a mine cave-in, and boards ship for the U.S. Cordell can be counted on to tell more of this lad, who will arrive in the New World in good...
...poet in commerce is wry, charming and unassuming. The author, who is a poet himself, manages to convince the reader that his hero is one also, by quoting a few lines And the brides of sometime Walked the good hour hauntingly that might have been written by Dylan Thomas, had that Welshman not been afflicted by drink and genius...
...times, Durrell is plagued by the fear that all his creative juices will dry up, or that he will "do a Dylan Thomas and blow up with beer." His next literary project is far from juiceless. He hopes "to do something big, rambling, and perhaps rather bawdy. My theory is if you get too priggish and rule out the bawdy, you also lose the tenderness. The two things march together, as they did for the Elizabethans...
Frontiers of Faith (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Sir Cedric Hardwicke illustrates "The Grandeur and Misery of Man" with readings from Homer, the Bible, Shakespeare, Keats, Dylan Thomas...