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byDaniel Jones  \nThis play for voices,written forperformance over the air inLondon and New York,is an evoca-tion of a Welsh town-that-never-was from midnight to midnight.Within its dramatic structure itcontains Dylan Thomas's finestpoetic writing since the publi-cation of his Collected Poems.  \nUnder Milk Wood was the lastwork to be completed by theauthor;the manuscript was de-livered to the publishers shortlybefore his death.  \nUnder Milk Wood was first broadcast by the B.B.C.on 25th January 1954,with a repetition two dayslater.Extracts from it were read at the GlobeTheatre evening of 'Homage to Dylan Thomas'on 24th January,and at the Memorial Recital atthe Royal Festival Hall on 14th Feburary.A complete stage reading of the play was pre-sented at the Old Vic Theatre on 28th Februaryand zth March.  \nA list of Dylan Thomas's workspublished by J.M.Dent&Sons Ltdis given on the back fap of thiwrapper.  \nCou1.SeUu  \n# UNDER MILK WOOD\n\nBy Dylan Thomas  \n# COLLECTED POEMS,1934-1952\n\nDEATHS AND ENTRANCESPoems  \nPORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AYOUNG DOG  \nUNDER MILK WOODA play for voices  \nTHE DOCTOR AND THE DEVILSA film scenario  \nEARLY ONE MORNING  \nStories and other prose writings(Ready Autumn 1954)  \nDYLAN THOMAS  \n# ☆Under Milk Wood\n\nA Play for Voices  \nPreface and musical settings by  \nDANIEL JONES  \nLONDON  \nJ.M.DENT &SONS LTD  \nAll rights reservedby  \nJ.M.DENT &SONS LTDAldine House·Bedford Street·LondonMade in Great Britain  \nat  \nThe Aldine Press·Letchworth·HertsFirst published 1954Reprinted 1954  \nCopyright 1954 in the United States ofAmerica by the Trustees for the Copy-rights of the late Dylan Thomas  \nAll rights in this play are fully protectedand permission to perform it in anymedium must be obtained in advancefrom Pearn,Pollinger &Higham Ltd,39-40 Bedford Street,London,W.C.2  \n# PREFACE\n\nOn the gth of November I953,a few days after histhirty-ninth birthday,Dylan Thomas died in New York.At the time of his death a new poem was still unfinished,and the collaboration with Stravinsky,planned for theend of the year,had not even begun.The survival ofUnder Milk Wood is a remarkable piece of good fortune,for it was not completed until Thomas came within amonth of his death,though he had worked intermittentlyon the play for nearly ten years.There was no timefor any final revision of the text by the poet himself,butwe are justified in regarding what he has left as a completework.  \nThe publication of Thomas's Collected Poems in I952marked the end of one period of his literary develop-ment;after this,according to his own words,he intendedto turn from the strictly personal kind of poetry toa more public form of expression,and to large-scaledramatic works in particular,where there would bescope for all his versatility,for his gifts of humour andcharacterization as well as his genius for poetry.It isfortunate that at least one of these projected works hasbeen preserved for us.  \nUnder Milk Wood,a Play for Voices grew by a slow andnatural process,and the story of that growth,knownonly to a few friends of the poet,is most interesting.Thomas liked small towns by the sea best,and smallWelsh towns by the sea best of all.Before the war helived for many years in Laugharne,and during the war  \nfor a time in New Quay;there is no doubt that heabsorbed the spirit of these places and,through imagina-tion and insight,the spirit of all other places like them.When,more than ten years ago,a short talk was com-missioned by the B.B.C.,the description of a smallWelsh seaside town was a natural choice of subject.Quite Early One Morning,short as it is,and written somany years ago,is closely related to Under Milk Wood.There is the same sequence of time,though limited tothe morning hours and in winter,not spring;we hearthe dreams of the sleeping town and see the sleepersgetting up and going about their business.Captain TinyEvans and the Rev.Thomas Evans are pygmies beside theblind sea-captain and 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