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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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1. Introduction
2. 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)
3. Further Reading
4. Copyright

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