by Dylan Thomas, John Davenport · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140045772
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«The Death of the King's Canary» is the satirical novel by Dylan Thomas and John Davenport, published by Penguin in paperback (144 pages, in English).
Hilary Byrd throws a wild party to celebrate his appointment as Poet Laureate; the evening brings together a gallery of eccentrics, from an absent-minded duke to a pot-smoking butler. Amid parodies of famous contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and Henry Moore, the night descends into a mysterious murder.
Written in 1941, the work was not published until three decades later; this 1978 Penguin edition includes an introduction by Constantine FitzGibbon.
For fans of literary satire and the twentieth-century British cultural world, with parodies of Eliot, Auden, Spender and Moore.
Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood. He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime, and remained so after his death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet".
