Question

In the third-person autobiography Nobody, a poet with this surname described their life as a rural priest, which inspired their poem about a dying hill farmer who “I left stranded upon the vast / and lonely shore of his bleak bed.” That poet with this surname wrote that “Shelley dreamed it. Now the dream decays” in his “Song at the Year’s Turning.” Another poet with this surname described writing for people “who pay no praise or wages / nor heed my (*) craft or art.” A writer with this surname was apparently influenced by cynghanedd (“kung-HAN-eth”) for the final poem in his collection Deaths and Entrances, which begins (10[1])“Now as I was (10[1])young and easy under the apple boughs” and is titled “Fern Hill.” (10[1])For 10 points, give the surname of the poet who wrote “rage, rage against the dying of the light” in “Do not go gentle into that good night.” ■END■

ANSWER: Thomas [accept R. S. (Ronald Stuart) Thomas or Dylan (Marlais) Thomas]
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2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%0%0%111.67