Deaths and Entrances

Deaths and Entrances is a volume of poetry by Dylan Thomas, first published in 1946. Many of the poems in this collection dealt with the effects of World War II, which had ended only a year earlier.[1] It became the best-known of his poetry collections.

This article is about the Dylan Thomas poem. For the My Latest Novel album, see Deaths and Entrances (album).

First edition (publ. J. M. Dent)

Some of the poems contained in the volume have become classics, notably Fern Hill.[2] The other poems in the collection are:

  • The conversation of prayers
  • A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
  • Poem in October
  • This side of the truth
  • To Others than You
  • Love in the Asylum
  • Unluckily for a death
  • The Hunchback in the Park
  • Into her lying down head
  • Paper and sticks
  • Deaths and Entrances
  • A Winter's Tale
  • On a Wedding Anniversary
  • There was a saviour
  • On the Marriage of a Virgin
  • In my craft or sullen art
  • Ceremony After a Fire Raid
  • Once below a time
  • When I woke
  • Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man aged a Hundred
  • Lie still, sleep becalmed
  • Vision and Prayer
  • Ballad of the Long-legged Bait
  • Holy Spring

References
  1. "Dylan Thomas: Deaths And Entrances". BBC Wales Arts. Last updated 6 November 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2010.
  2. "Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill". BBC Wales Arts. Last updated 6 November 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2010.
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