Deaths and Entrances (1946) is Dylan Thomas’ best-known poetry collection — and (conceivably) best poetry collection of the politics-knotted, post-war decade.

Contents

1. Poems.
   1. The conversation of prayers.
   2. A Refusal to Morun the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London.
   3. Poem in October.
   4. This side of the truth.
   5. To Others than You.
   6. Love in the Asylum.
   7. Unluckily for a death.
   8. The hunchback in the park.
   9. Into her lying down head.
   10. Paper and sticks.
   11. Deaths and Entrances.
   12. A Winter’s Tale.
   13. On a Wedding Anniversary.
   14. There was a saviour.
   15. On the Marriage of a Virgin.
   16. In my craft or sullen art.
   17. Ceremony After a Fire Raid.
   18. Once below a time.
   19. When I woke.
   20. Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man Aged a Hundred.
   21. Lie still, sleep becalmed.
   22. Vision and Prayer.
   23. Ballad of the Long-legged Bait.
   24. Holy Spring.
   25. Fern Hill.

Copyright

© 1937, 1945, 1955, 1956, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1977 The Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas.