THE estuarine setting of the converted boathouse in Laugharne, south Wales, where Dylan Thomas spent the final four years of his life (1949-53), played a vivid role in his later work. Nearby was the old garage that he used as his writing shed and in which he wrote such poems as "Do Not Go Gentle" and "Over Sir John's Hill", as well as his best-known play, "Under Milk Wood". "His best writing", says a fellow Welsh poet, Owen Shears, "is in that view and in the rhythms of the people of that town.”
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