MODERN CLASSICS UNDER MILK WOOD

As the inhabitants of Llareggub lie sleeping, their dreams and fantasies deliciously unfold. There is Captain Cat surrounded by fish that 'nibble him down to his wishbone', Mog Edwards, 'a draper mad with love' for shy dressmaker Miss Price, Organ Morgan, listening to the music in Coronation Street with 'spouses ... honking like geese and the babies singing opera', while at the sea-end of town, Mr and Mrs Floyd lie in their bed 'side by wrinkled side ... like two old kippers in a box'. Waking up, their dreams turn to bustling activity as a new day begins.

In this classic modern pastoral, the 'dismays and rainbows' of the imagined seaside town become, within the cycle of one day, 'a greenleaved sermon on the innocence of men'.

'#Its# great strength ... is the Chaucerian life and liveliness of its ... characters, enjoyed in all their spontaneous eccentricity' Walford Davies