... , troubles in school, depression, poverty and severe alcoholism, which eventually killed him in 1953. Although considered controversial at times and unorthodox, his poetic genius has presently earned him a place in literary history. Thomas was born in Wales on October 27 in 1914 and attended Swansea Grammar School where his father was the senior English master. His father D.J. Thomas was an extremely ... ...

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