Deaths and Entrances

First edition (publ. J. M. Dent)

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.

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

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