''Deaths and Entrances'' is a volume of poetry by

Dylan Thomas Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" ''Under ...

, first published in 1946. Many of the poems in this collection dealt with the effects of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, which had ended only a year earlier. It became the best-known of his poetry collections. Some of the poems contained in the volume have become classics, notably ''

Fern Hill "Fern Hill" (1945) is a poem by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, first published in ''Horizon'' magazine in October 1945, with its first book publication in 1946 as the last poem in '' Deaths and Entrances''. Thomas had started writing ''Fern Hill'' ...

''."Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill"
BBC Wales Arts. Last updated 6 November 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2010. 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, 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Deaths And Entrances Anglo-Welsh literature 1946 poetry books Welsh poetry Works by Dylan Thomas Poetry collections