‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ is the most famous poem of Dylan Thomas. The poems of Dylan Thomas remain popular to this day, and he is regarded as the greatest Welsh poet of the twentieth century.
Dylan Thomas was born on October 27th, 1914, in the United Kingdom.
As he was not interested in any other subject other than English language, Dylan Thomas dropped out of school at the age of sixteen. Then he moved to London in 1941, and became a junior reporter.
Thomas had jotted down poems in notebooks years ago, and in London, these poems were published by the Fortune Press as a book titled ‘18 Poems’. This book brought Dylan Thomas name and fame.
Unlike Eliot and Auden, Dylan Thomas steered clear of social and intellectual issues. A travelling scholarship from the Society of Authors enabled Dylan Thomas to take his family to Italy. ‘In Country Sleep: And Other Poems’ was published while he was in Florence. ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ his masterpiece, appears in this collection. His other notable works are ‘And Death Shall Have no Dominion’ and ‘Under Milk Wood’. Thomas was a popular poet during his lifetime. The poet died at the age of thirty nine.