Edited by Richard Walker, Tuesday, 23 Oct 2018, 20:54
It's little known that at the time of his death Dylan Thomas was working on a verse version of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis.
Towards the end, however, his muse began to falter; also Thomas, as an avid student of different verse forms, and himself a considerable humorist, had unfortunately been reading some clerihews.
The effect of all this can be seen in the ending of the Kafka-Thomas verse novel, an extract never before published.
When the bug burst, it was all icky ichor, it was all Gregor, Time held him green and dying like a flea. But afterwards Grete,
Felt better.
Dylan Thomas' Metamorphosis
It's little known that at the time of his death Dylan Thomas was working on a verse version of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis.
Towards the end, however, his muse began to falter; also Thomas, as an avid student of different verse forms, and himself a considerable humorist, had unfortunately been reading some clerihews.
The effect of all this can be seen in the ending of the Kafka-Thomas verse novel, an extract never before published.
When the bug burst, it was all icky ichor, it was all Gregor,Time held him green and dying like a flea.
But afterwards Grete,
Felt better.