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Thomas returns again and again to the theme of the unity and holiness of all existence.  He is in the tradition of Blake, Wordsworth and Whitman.  But he is not there all the time.  There is conflict.  And so we have lines like this one. Do not go gentle into that good night. If it [...]

Worked as a newspaper reporter Discovered through a poetry contest in a popular newspaper. Published Eighteen Poems. Noted for strange violent imagery and powerfully suggestive obscurity. New strength and romantic picturesqueness restored to English poetry? Post TS Eliot neo-Romantic movement afoot? No. He becomes known as a master craftsman and not a shouting rhapsodist. Images [...]