Editing Dylan Thomas (section)

====War poetry====
Thomas’s horror of war, foreshadowed in some of his poems of the 1930s<ref>{{cite book | last =Davies|first =Walford|author-link =|date = 2014| title = Dylan Thomas|series = Writers of Wales| location = Cardiff| publisher = University of Wales Press |pages= 106–7}}</ref> and fuelled by his lived experience of the bombing raids and fire storms of [[the Blitz]] in London, received further expression in his poems of the war period.  These include elegies for an elderly man – ''Among Those Killed in a Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a Hundred'' (1941) – and for child victims of incendiary bombing raids in ''Ceremony After a Fire Raid'' (1944) and ''A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London'' (1945). They were collected in ''[[Deaths and Entrances]]'', the fourth volume of his poetry, published in 1946. The sentiments expressed in his war poems were, according to Walford Davies, representative of “the real temper of the British people of the time – the resilience and the guts”.<ref>{{cite book | last =Davies|first =Walford|author-link =|date = 2014| title = Dylan Thomas|series = Writers of Wales| location = Cardiff| publisher = University of Wales Press |page= 113 }}</ref>