One of the most important Welsh poets writing in English, Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) was born in Swansea, Wales. He published 18 Poems in 1934, when he was twenty, followed by Twenty-Five Poems (1936) and The Map of Love (1939). His collection Deaths and Entrances (1946) contains Fern Hill and A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London. His verse drama for radio, Under Milk Wood, was broadcast in 1954, shortly after his death in New York City. The villanelle Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, addressed to his dying father, remains among his best-known poems.
