Editing The Blitz (section)

===Poetry===
The Welsh poet [[Dylan Thomas ]] had first-hand experience of the Blitz whilst working in London for [[Strand Films]] on morale-boosting documentary films for the [[Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Information]]. His lived experience of bombing raids and fire storms were given powerful expression in poems he wrote at the time, notably 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]], a volume of his poetry published in 1946. The sentiments expressed in his war poems were, according to Professor 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 |pages= 106–117 }}</ref>

The poet [[T.S.Eliot]] served as an [[Air Raid Precautions|air raid warden]] on night-watch during the London Blitz.  Passages in his 1942 poem ''Little Gidding'', (subsequently published as the last poem in ''[[Four Quartets]]'') derive from his experiences of the devastation caused by civilian bombardment. Hilda Doolittle, who wrote poetry as [[H.D.]], conveyed her experiences of the London Blitz in the poem ''The Walls Do Not Fall'' (1944) where they are set alongside historical examples of besieged cities.<ref>Michael Hulse, Simon Rae (eds) ''The 20th Century in Poetry''. London: Ebury Press. 2011 p. 270.</ref> The Welsh poet [[Vernon Watkins]] has lines in his poem The Broken Sea 
(Souls numbered their days/Between night and morning…) which evoke his experience of the [[Swansea Blitz]] of 1941.<ref>
''The Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins'' (1986). Ipswich: Golgonooza Press p. 95</ref>