Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection (2002)
ISBN 0-694-52659-2
CD 1
1. Billy Collins Introduction
from Dylan Thomas Reading A Child's Christmas in Wales and Five Poems
2. A Child's Christmas in Wales, A Story
3. Fern Hill
4. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
5. In the White Giant's Thigh
6. Ballad of the Long legged Bait
7. Ceremony After a Fire Raid
from Dylan Thomas Reading Over Sir John's Hill and Other Poems
8. A Few Words of a Kind
9. On the Marriage of a Virgin
10. The Hunchback in the Park
11. Over Sir John's Hill
from Dylan Thomas Reading from His Works
12. Laugharne
13. Especially When the October Wind
CD 2
1. Billy Collins Introduction
from Dylan Thomas Reading Poem on His Birthday, And Death Shall Have No Dominion, Lament and Other Poems Volume 2
2. Lament
3. Poem On His Birthday
4. Should Lanterns Shine
5. There Was A Saviour
6. A Refusal To Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
7. If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love
8. And Death Shall Have No Dominion
9. A Winter's Tale
from Dylan Thomas Reading Complete Recorded Poetry
10. Author's Prologue
11. The Hand that Signed the Paper
12. Altarwise by Owl Light (1st Verse)
13. The Tombstone Told When She Died
14. If My Head Hurt a Hair's Foot
15. Poem in October (It Was My Thirtieth Year)
16. Love in the Asylum
17. In My Craft and Sullen Art
18. Dawn Raid
from Dylan Thomas Reading Over Sir John's Hill and Other Poems
19. Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines
20. After the Funeral
21. In Country Sleep
CD 3
1. Billy Collins Introduction
from Dylan Thomas Reading Quite Early One Morning and Other Memories
2. Quite Early One Morning
3. Reminiscences Of Childhood
4. A Visit To Grandpa's
5. Holiday Memory
from Dylan Thomas Reading from His Works
6. A Story
CD 4
1. Billy Collins Introduction
from Dylan Thomas: In Country Heaven - the Evolution of a Poem
2. The Voice of Dylan Thomas, an introduction by Douglas Cleverdon
3. Introduction to Over Sir John's Hill
4. In Country Heaven (excerpt read by Hugh Griffith)
5. Various revisions of In Country Heaven which resulted in the final version read by Douglas Cleverdon, Hugh Griffith, Basil Jones; Humphry Searle reminiscing
6. Over Sir John's Hill
7. In Country Sleep
8. In the White Giant's Thigh
from Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell Read and Discuss Her Poetry
9. Edith Sitwell discussing Harvest
10. Harvest (excerpt) (by Edith Sitwell)
11. Edith Sitwell discussing The Two Loves
12. The Two Loves (excerpt) (by Edith Sitwell)
13. Edith Sitwell discussing The Shadow of Cain
14. The Shadow of Cain (excerpt) (by Edith Sitwell)
15. Edith Sitwell discussing The Shadow of Cain (pt 2)
16. The Shadow of Cain (2nd excerpt) (by Edith Sitwell)
17. Edith Sitwell discussing The Canticle of the Rose
18. The Canticle of the Rose (by Edith Sitwell)
19. Edith Sitwell discussing The Bee-Keeper
20. The Bee-Keeper (by Edith Sitwell)
21. Edith Sitwell discussing Heart and Mind
22. Heart and Mind (by Edith Sitwell)
23. Still Falls the Rain (by Edith Sitwell)
CD 5
1. Billy Collins Introduction
from Dylan Thomas Reading A Visit to America and Poems
2. A Visit to America - An Irreverant Preamble
3. The Bards (by Walter De La Mare)
4. Master and Bos'n Song (by W.H. Auden)
5. As I Walked Out One Evening (by W.H. Auden)
6. Chard Witlow: Mr. T.S. Eliot's Sunday Evening Broadcast Postscript (by Henry Reid)
7. Naming of Parts (by Henry Reid)
8. The Owl (by Edward Thomas)
9. Broken Appointment (by Thomas Hardy)
10. To Lizbie Browne (by Thomas Hardy)
11. In Death Divided (by Thomas Hardy)
from An Evening with Dylan Thomas
12. An Irreverent Introduction
13. The Traveler's Curse After Misdirection -Translated from the Welsh
14. A Glass of Beer (by James Stephens)
15. One Poet Visits Another (by W.H. Davies)
16. An Introduction to Thomas Hardy
17. To Lizbie Browne (by Thomas Hardy)
18. The Ruined Maid (by Thomas Hardy)
19. Lent (by W.R. Rogers)
20. Song (by Alun Lewis)
21. To My Son Aged Eight (by John Betjeman)
22. As I Walked Out One Evening (by W.H. Auden)
23. Master and Bos'n Song (by W.H. Auden)
24. Passing the Graveyard (by Andrew Young)
25. In Tara's Halls (by W.B. Yeats)
26. The Three Bushes (by W.B. Yeats)
27. Lapis Lazuli (by W.B. Yeats)
28. This Side of the Truth (by Dylan Thomas)
29. In My Craft or Sullen Art (by Dylan Thomas)
CD 6
1. Billy Collins Introduction
from Dylan Thomas Reads the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Others
2. The Speech of Oedipus at Colonus (by W.B. Yeats)
3. Three Things (by W.B. Yeats)
4. The Circus Animals (by W.B. Yeats)
5. Leda and the Swan (by W.B. Yeats)
6. Solomon and the Witch (by W.B. Yeats)
7. Long-Legged Fly (by W.B. Yeats)
8. The Three Bushes (by W.B. Yeats)
9. The Dialogue of Self and Soul (by W.B. Yeats)
10. For Anne Gregory (by W.B. Yeats)
11. The Libertine (by Louis MacNiece)
12. News of the World II (by George Baker)
13. At the Keyhole (by Walter De La Mare)
14. A Novelette (by Louis MacNiece)
15. A Woman's History (by W.H. Auden)
16. Whales, Weep Not (by D.H. Lawrence)
17. September 1, 1939 (by W.H. Auden)
from Dylan Thomas Reading from His Works
18. I Knock at the Door, Chapter II (excerpt) (by Sean O'Casey)
19. Watchman, What of the Night from Nightwood (by Djuna Barnes)
CD 7
1. Billy Collins Introduction
from Dylan Thomas Reads A Personal Anthology
2. The Collier (by Vernon Watkins)
3. Child Lovers (by W.H. Davies)
4. Sacco Writes to His Son (by Alun Lewis)
5. The Child on the Cliffs (by Edward Thomas)
6. Strange Meeting (Pts 1 & 2) (by Wilfred Owen)
7. John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore (by W.B. Yeats)
8. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (by Gerard Manley Hopkins)
9. The Ship of Death (by D.H. Lawrence)
from Dylan Thomas: Return Journey to Swansea
10. Polly Perkins (by Anonymous)
11. Welsh Incident (by Robert Graves)
12. Counting the Beats (by Robert Graves)
13. Lift Boy (by Robert Graves)
14. Old Man (by Edward Thomas)
15. Naming of Parts (by Henry Reid)
16. O Boys! O Boys! (by Oliver St. John Gregory)
17. My Dark-headed Kathchen (by John Manifold)
18. Evening in the Sanitarium (by Louise Bogan)
19. Parody 'I Climb the Stairs After a Tedious Masquerade…' (by Patrick Boland)
20. Senex (by John Betjeman)
21. On a Portrait of a Deaf Man (by by John Betjeman)
22. The Day Set for Our Wedding (by Donagh MacDonagh)
23. The Flying Bum (by William Plomer)
CD 8
1. Billy Collins Introduction
from Dylan Thomas Reading from King Lear and The Duchess of Malfi
2. King Lear, Act 1, Scene 4 (by William Shakespeare)
3. King Lear, Act 2, Scene 4 (by William Shakespeare)
4. King Lear, Act 3, Scene 2 (by William Shakespeare)
5. King Lear, Act 4, Scene 7 (by William Shakespeare)
6. The Duchess of Malfi, Act 4, Scene 2 (by John Webster)
from Dylan Thomas Reads A Personal Anthology
7. Paradise Lost, Book 1, 242-270 (by John Milton)
8. Paradise Lost, Book 1, 315-330 (by John Milton)
9. Paradise Lost, Book 1, 622-663 (by John Milton)
10. Paradise Lost, Book 2, 430-466 (by John Milton)
11. Paradise Lost, Book 2, 681-687 (by John Milton)
12. Paradise Lost, Book 2, 817-844 (by John Milton)
13. Paradise Lost, Book 2, 968-987 (by John Milton)
14. Comus, 331-342 (by John Milton)
15. Comus, 366-385 (by John Milton)
16. Comus, 407-475 (by John Milton)
17. Comus, 586-608 (by John Milton)
from Dylan Thomas Reads the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Others
18. Dr. Faustus - "Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live..." (by Christopher Marlowe)
CD 9
1. Billy Collins Introduction
from Under Milkwood
2. Under Milkwood Part 1
3. Under Milkwood Part 2
4. Under Milkwood Part 3
CD 10
1. Billy Collins Introduction
from Under Milkwood
2. Under Milkwood part 4
from Dylan Thomas: Return Journey to Swansea
3. Return Journey to Swansea (full cast)
from An Evening with Dylan Thomas
4. On Reading Poetry Aloud, A BBC Talk by Dylan Thomas
5. If My Head Hurt a Hair's Foot
6. On Reading Poetry Aloud, A BBC Talk by Dylan Thomas continued...
7. Poem in October (It Was My Thirtieth Year)
from Dylan Thomas Reads from His Adventures in the Skin Trade and Two Poems
8. Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was A Man Aged One Hundred
9. The Force that Through the Green Fuse
CD 11
1. Billy Collins Introduction
from Dylan Thomas Reads from His Adventures in the Skin Trade and Two Poems
2. Skin Trade, Chapter I, A Fine Beginning, Part 4 (beginning)
3. Skin Trade, Chapter I, A Fine Beginning, Part 4 (conclusion)
4. Skin Trade, Chapter II, Plenty of Furniture, Part 1 (beginning)
5. Skin Trade, Chapter II, Plenty of Furniture, Part 1 (conclusion)
6. Skin Trade, Chapter II, Plenty of Furniture, Part 2
7. Skin Trade, Chapter II, Plenty of Furniture, Part 3
8. Skin Trade, Chapter II, Plenty of Furniture, Part 4
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Wikipedia in English
Unfinished works are always going to be unsatisfying, this proves the rule and not by being an exception. It's an apparently autobiographical bildungsroman, but such a story is unsatisfactory without the final coming of age. As it stands it's a fairly standard tale about a small town boy coming to London and having his expectations shattered on the first night . Thomas does have the occasional sharp turn of phrase you'd expect and retains his poetic ability to find the comically bizarre in the mundane but there's not really enough there to sustain what's there as anything else but an interesting footnote to Thomas's poetry which, as the introduction in my version noted, he seemingly took far more care over than his prose. If this is semi-autobiographical it was a hell of a lot more fun to live than to read. (