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Which poet wrote 'Do not go gentle into that good night'?

  • Dylan Thomas
  • W.H. Auden
  • T.S. Eliot

The answer is Dylan Thomas. For his dying father.

Dylan Thomas

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".

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