John Wilkinson on the Poetry of Dylan Thomas, 10.30.14

"Wave Power: The Effacement of Caesura in Dylan Thomas's Poetry"
John Wilkinson
October 30, 2014
October 2014 marks the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas, a poet remarkable at once for obscurity and popularity. This lecture argues that in his poetry Thomas seeks to efface what Freud termed the caesura of birth, to collapse temporality and thus efface the caesura of death, and to erase the prosodic caesura through the use of syllabics.
John Wilkinson is the Associate Chair for Creative Writing and Poetics in the Department of English at the University of Chicago.
Presented by the History and Forms of Lyric Series.
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