The Oxford Companion to English Literature | 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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