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Poet Dylan Thomas in his youth, dressed in loose overshirt and jaunty scarf around his neck.

From the National Recording Registry: “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” (1952)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

Since its inception, the National Recording Registry has been about far more than just music.  (Though, of course, music–of all kinds–plays an important part in the Registry.)  A case in point is this 1952 recording of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas who was recorded reading his seminal prose poem “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.”  …