Both the spheres of the religious and the corporal in Dylan Thomas’s poetry, especially in the poems of the first collection, 18 Poems (1934), are very much linked together, suggesting a sort of ‘body religiousness’, according with a declaration of the poet which opens the Collected Poems (1953): they’re poems written «for the love of Man», rife with a spirituality which originates deeply from the flesh, we could say from the things’ core, «and in praise of God», that God and that Christ who are as one with the Man, and wouldn’t be holy at all if not considered in their granitic terrenity, as a communion of body, animality and earth. The Lord, the Savior, even the devil are always present as symbols, metaphors: «whether praised or dismissed...