Dannie Abse in Laugharne
Now as 1 was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes
From the time he grew up DYLAN THOMAS longed to return to the paradise he felt he had inhabited as a child. The poet DANNIE ABSE feels that this shows through all Dylan Thomas 's work. His most beautiful laments are for his lost innocence - innocence of death.
The years that Thomas lived in Laugharne, just outside Swansea, provided him with the setting and characters for Under Milk Wood. But they also brought him closer than he had been since childhood to his lost paradise.
Film cameraman A. A. ENGLANDER Sound DAVE JEWITT
Film editor ALLAN TYRER
Series producer DAVID HEYCOCK Director MARGARET MCCALL Preview: page 13