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Clara Gyorgyey (review date 1998)

SOURCE: Gyorgyey, Clara. Review of Welsh Retrospective, by Dannie Abse. World Literature Today 2, no. 4 (autumn 1998): 829.

[In the following review, Gyorgyey offers brief criticism of Abse's Welsh Retrospective.]

Dannie Abse's latest book [Welsh Retrospective], a slim volume of forty poems, many of them published in earlier collections, is a retrospective in several senses. Not only do these poems review his poetic career, but they also look back over Abse's experience as a Welshman, and very far back into the past of the Welsh culture and language. Teasing out and tracing the complex thread of his identity has been Abse's central theme throughout his poetry, but until this latest volume he has explored his Jewishness and his vocation as a doctor more thoroughly than he has his Welsh origins. Perhaps stimulated by the Welsh identity movement, which, in parallel with similar movements in...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Roland Mathias (essay date 1967)
   2. Michael Mott (review date 1971)
   3. Times Literary Supplement (review date 1973)
   4. Dannie Abse and Mark Boada (interview date 1975)
   5. John Mole (review date 1977)
   6. Joseph Cohen (essay date 1983)
   7. Gigliol´ Sacerdoti Mariani (essay date 1983)
   8. Vernon Scannell (essay date 1983)
   9. Choice (review date 1984)
   10. Michael O'Neill (review date 1987)
   11. Genevieve Stuttaford (review date 1991)
   12. Publishers Weekly (review date 1993)
   13. Clara Gyorgyey (review date 1998)
   14. Ray Olson (review date 2000)
   15. Nicholas Wroe (essay date 2001)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

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