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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. Creation
Fern Hill" is a poem by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Fernhill or Fern Hill may also refer to: Places. Australia. Fernhill, Bowenfels, a heritage-listed residence and ...
First edition (publ. J. M. Dent) Deaths and Entrances is a volume of poetry by Dylan Thomas, first published in 1946.Many of the poems in this collection dealt with the effects of World War II, which had ended only a year earlier. [1]
[199] [265] [nb 22] Thomas's poetry is notable for its musicality, [266] most clear in "Fern Hill", "In Country Sleep", "Ballad of the Long-legged Bait" and "In the White Giant's Thigh" from Under Milk Wood. Thomas once confided that the poems which had most influenced him were Mother Goose rhymes which his parents taught him when he was a child:
1997 Fern Hill: An Illustrated edition of the Dylan Thomas poem. Red Deer College Press, Canada; 2000 Collected Poems 1934–1953, London: Phoenix;
Fern Hill: for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra (or chamber ensemble) words by Dylan Thomas revised 1965 with full orchestra revised 1999 with chamber orchestra Choral: 1962: What I Expected Was... for mixed chorus, brass ensemble and percussion: words by Stephen Spender: Choral: 1965: Christmas at the Cloisters: for mixed chorus and piano
There are a number of walking/biking tracks that can be accessed from around the Fernhill area: The Department of Conservation Arawata Terrace Track takes you from Arawata Terrace to the Queenstown-Glenorchy Road.
In 1981, American composer William Mayer, set the poem "Fern Hill" to music for a trio of soprano, flute and harp. John Cale set a number of Thomas's poems to music: There was a saviour , Do not go gentle into that good night , On a Wedding Anniversary and Lie still, sleep becalmed , recording them in his 1989 album Words for the Dying and ...