Abse, Dannie | Gigliol´ Sacerdoti Mariani (essay date 1983)
Gigliol´ Sacerdoti Mariani (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: Mariani, Gigliol´ Sacerdoti. “From Funland to Funland! An Ellipse.” In The Poetry of Dannie Abse, pp. 47-84. London: Robson Books, 1983.
[In the following essay, Mariani discusses the body of Abse's work, praising “Funland” as the masterpiece.]
The contributors to this collection of essays on Dannie Abse have made my task in introducing their articles both easy and difficult: easy because they have capably identified the essential qualities in Abse's poems and plays and articulated, in many instances superbly, much that is worth knowing about them; difficult because as each contribution arrived it effectively narrowed the range of topics I had anticipated addressing in this space. If, in order to avoid repetition, I have less to say, there is no real loss: I share with the contributors their feelings about the value and impact of Abse's poetry and plays.
Poets with true...
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