Deaths and Entrances
1946 volume of poetry by Dylan Thomas
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 [1]
- 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
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Dylan Thomas (works)
- A Child's Christmas in Wales
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
- Under Milk Wood (radio play)
- Rebecca's Daughters (screenplay)
- 18 Poems
- Deaths and Entrances
- "And death shall have no dominion"
- "Do not go gentle into that good night"
- "Fern Hill"
- "In my craft or sullen art"
- "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower"
- Caitlin Thomas (wife)
- Aeronwy Thomas (daughter)
- Gwilym Marles (paternal granduncle)
- The Kardomah Gang
- Cultural depictions
- The Boathouse
- Dylan Thomas Centre
- Dylan Thomas Theatre
- Dylan Thomas Trail
- Laugharne
- Dylan Thomas (1962 documentary)
- Dylan (1964 play)
- The Edge of Love (2008 film)
- Set Fire to the Stars (2014 film)
- A Poet in New York (2014 television film)
- Dominion (2016 film)