Dannie Abse (1923–2014)
Autore di Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve
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Dannie Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales on September 22, 1923. He trained as a doctor at King's College London and Westminster Hospital, where he qualified in 1950. In 1951, he was called up for national service as a medical officer in the RAF. In 1954, he went to the Middlesex Hospital, where he mostra altro stayed for the rest of his medical career, as specialist in charge of the chest clinic at the Central Medical Establishment. His first collection of poetry, After Every Green Thing, was published in 1948 and his first autobiographical novel, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve, was published in 1954. His other collections of poetry include A Small Desperation; Funland; White Coat, Purple Coat: Collected Poems, 1948-88; Two for Joy: Scenes from Married Life; Speak, Old Parrot; and Ask the Moon. He won the Roland Mathais Prize in 2007 for Running Late and the Wales Book of the Year award in 2008 for The Presence. His other novels include Some Corner of an English Field; O. Jones, O. Jones; There Was a Young Man from Cardiff; and The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas. He wrote two books of memoirs, A Poet in the Family and Goodbye, Twentieth Century. He also wrote a number of plays. In the early 1950s, he edited a magazine entitled Poetry and Poverty and compiled a variety of anthologies including Wales in Verse and the Hutchinson Book of Post-War British Poets. In 2012, he accepted his CBE for services to poetry and literature. He died on September 28, 2014 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Editor's Choice II: Fiction, Poetry & Art from the U.S. Small Press, 1978-1983 (Contemporary Anthology Series) (1987) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
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- Nome legale
- Abse, Daniel
- Data di nascita
- 1923-09-22
- Data di morte
- 2014-09-28
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Wales
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Cardiff, Wales, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Cardiff, South Wales, UK
Hampstead, London, England, UK - Istruzione
- University of Wales College of Medicine
Westminster Hospital Medical School
King's College, London - Attività lavorative
- physician
poet
novelist
autobiographer - Relazioni
- Abse, Leo (brother)
Tobias, Lily (aunt)
Abse, Joan (wife)
Abse, Wilfred (brother) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of the British Empire (Commander ∙ 2012)
Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)
Cholmondeley Award
Fellow, Welsh Academy of Letters
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Abse has a hard act to follow here. Doctor Glas, which I've discussed elsewhere, is a superb existential story of alienation, told from the point of view of a doctor who by virtue of his position in society is both especially connected to people - he is privy to their secrets - and especially disconnected - he is privy to secrets. The very fact that his job is to be privy to their most private thoughts means that the nature of his social relationships is compromised and ambiguous. He finds it hard to understand what his relationship is to individuals and that is connected up, of course, to his relationship to society.
Abse continues on this theme with the profound understanding that comes of being both a doctor and a poet. He is at the time of penning this, furthermore, an eighty year old Jewish doctor and poet.
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Abse continues on this theme with the profound understanding that comes of being both a doctor and a poet. He is at the time of penning this, furthermore, an eighty year old Jewish doctor and poet.
The rest is here
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Several months after the death of poet Dannie Abse's wife in a car accident, he began to write a diary which is both a record of present grief and a portrait of a marriage that lasted more than fifty years.
Several months after the death of poet Dannie Abse's wife in a car accident, he began to write a diary which is both a record of present grief and a portrait of a marriage that lasted more than fifty years.
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Abse continues on this theme with the profound understanding that comes of being both a doctor and a poet. He is at the time of penning this, furthermore, an eighty year old Jewish doctor and poet.
The rest is here
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