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DYLAN THOMAS

he Code of Night

avid Holbrook

DYLAN THOMAS The code of night

Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism This carefully chosen selection of 56 classic works of literary criticism comes from the archives of Athlone Press, one of the most distinguished publishers of English criticism in the period 1950–2000. The volumes in the collection cover all periods and styles of literary criticism, from Beowulf to Pinter, and include works of literary theory as well as studies of specific periods, writers or works. Authors include Herbert Grierson, Barbara Hardy, Christopher Norris, George Kane, EMW Tillyard, Patricia Ball, Geoffrey Tillotson, David Holbrook, and John Sutherland. All titles are issued in cased bindings as complete facsimile editions; ebook versions are also available. Titles in English Literary Criticism are available in the following subsets: English Literary Criticism: General Theory and History English Literary Criticism: Pre-1700 English Literary Criticism: 18th–19th Centuries English Literary Criticism: 20th Century Other titles available in English Literary Criticism: Pre-1700 include: Aldous Huxley: A Study of the Major Novels, Peter Bowering Sylvia Plath: Poetry and Existence, David Holbrook The Existential and its Exits: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives on the Works of Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Pinter, L. A. C. Dobrez The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett, Katharine Worth The Filibuster: A Study of the Political ideas of Wyndham Lewis, D. G. Bridson The Literary Criticism of T.S. Eliot: New Essays, David Newton-De Molina Theory and Personality: The Significance of T.S. Eliot’s Criticism, Brian Lee T.S. Eliot: Mystic, Son and Lover, Donald J. Childs

DYLAN THOMAS The Code of Night

David Holbrook

BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC COLLECTIONS: English Literary Criticism – 20th Century

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