Michael O'Neill (review date 1987)
SOURCE: O'Neill, Michael. “A Nostalgia for Belief.” Times Literary Supplement no. 4373 (23 January 1987): 92.
[In the following review, O'Neill comments on the mysterious quality of Ask the Bloody Horse.]
Both the charm and the limitations of Ask the Bloody Horse are highlighted by the fact that its poems are never so cheerfully wise or conversationally at ease as when they display their obsessive interest in the mysterious. In “Quests” Dannie Abse presents desire for “the other world” with a...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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