Abse, Dannie
Abse, Dannie ( Daniel Abse ) ( 1923 – ),doctor and poet, born in Cardiff of a Welsh–Jewish family. His first volume of poetry, After Every Green Thing ( 1948 ), was followed by many others, including Tenants of the House: Poems 1951–1956 ( 1957 ) and Collected Poems 1948–1976 ( 1977 ); in a foreword to the latter he notes that his poems are increasingly ‘rooted in actual experience’, both domestic and professional, and many display a reconciliation between Jewish and Welsh themes and traditions. Other volumes include Ask the Bloody Horse ( 1986 ), White Coat, Purple Coat: Collected Poems 1948–88 ( 1989 ), Remembrance of Crimes Past ( 1990 ), and On the Evening Road ( 1994 ). His novels include Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve ( 1954 ), an account of Welsh boyhood and adolescence, and O. Jones, O. Jones ( 1970 ), about a Welsh medical student in London....
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