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Tables of Contents for A Reader's Guide to Dylan Thomas
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
3
20
Author's Prologue
20
7
18 Poems, 1934
I see the boys of summer
27
1
When once the twilight locks
28
4
A process in the weather of the heart
32
4
Before I knocked
36
2
The force that through the green fuse
38
4
My hero bares his nerves
42
2
Where once the waters of your face
44
2
If I were tickled by the rub of love
46
3
Our eunuch dreams
49
2
Especially when the October wind
51
3
When, like a running grave
54
3
From love's first fever
57
2
In the beginning
59
3
Light breaks where no sun shines
62
4
I fellowed sleep
66
2
I dreamed my genesis
68
2
My world is pyramid
70
5
All all and all the dry world's lever
75
4
Twenty-five Poems, 1936
I, in my intricate image
79
7
This bread I break
86
2
Incarnate devil
88
1
To-day, this insect
89
3
The seed-at-zero
92
2
Shall gods be said to thump the clouds
94
1
Here in this spring
94
1
Do you not father me
94
3
Out of the sighs
97
1
Hold hard, these ancient minutes
98
3
Was there a time
101
1
Now
102
2
Why east wind chills
104
1
A grief ago
105
3
How soon the servant sun
108
2
Ears in the turrets hear
110
1
Foster the light
111
3
The hand that signed the paper
114
1
Should lanterns shine
115
1
I have longed to move away
116
2
Find meat on bones
118
1
Grief thief of time
119
2
And death shall have no dominion
121
2
Then was my neophyte
123
3
Altarwise by owl-light
126
19
The Map of Love, 1939
Because the pleasure-bird whistles
145
2
I make this in a warring absence
147
3
When all my five and country senses see
150
2
We lying by seasand
152
2
It is the sinners' dust-tongued bell
154
2
O make me a mask
156
1
The spire cranes
157
2
After the funeral
159
2
Once it was the colour of saying
161
2
Not from this anger
163
1
How shall my animal
164
3
The tombstone told when she died
167
1
On no work of words
168
1
A saint about to fall
169
4
`If my head hurt a hair's foot'
173
2
Twenty-four years
175
3
Deaths and Entrances, 1946
The Conversation of Prayer
178
2
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child
180
3
Poem in October
183
5
This side of the truth
188
2
To Others Than You
190
1
Love in the Asylum
191
2
Unluckily for a death
193
4
The hunchback in the park
197
3
Into her lying down head
200
3
Do not go gentle into that good night
203
3
Deaths and Entrances
206
3
A Winter's Tale
209
6
On a Wedding Anniversary
215
1
There was a saviour
216
2
On the Marriage of a Virgin
218
3
In my craft or sullen art
221
2
Ceremony After a Fire Raid
223
5
Once below a time
228
5
When I woke
233
2
Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid
235
2
Lie still, sleep becalmed
237
2
Vision and Prayer
239
9
Ballad of the Long-legged Bait
248
17
Holy Spring
265
3
Fern Hill
268
5
In Country Sleep, 1952
In Country Sleep
273
8
Over Sir John's hill
281
3
Poem on His Birthday
284
5
Lament
289
3
In the White Giant's Thigh
292
5
Elegy
297
2
Bibliography
299
2
Index of Poems
301
2
Index of Names
303