Dannie Abse Criticism: Further Reading

Curtis, Tony, Dannie Abse, University of Wales Press, 1985, 123 p. (Discusses the body of Abse's work.)

Davies, Daniel, "Review of Arcadia, One Mile, by Dannie Abse," Lancet (24 October 1998): 1397. (Praises Abse for including universal themes in Arcadia, One Mile.)

Mathias, Roland, "The Poetry of Dannie Abse: I," Anglo-Welsh Review 15, no. 36 (summer 1966): 107–23. (Follows Abse's early development as a poet.)

Review of One-Legged on Ice, by Dannie Abse, Poetry 145, no. 3 (1984): 166-67. (Offers a generally positive assessment of One-Legged on Ice.)

Sergeant, Howard, "Poetry of the Whole Man," Books and Bookmen 22, no. 10 (July 1977): 35-36. (Considers the development of Abse's poetic style.)

Tripp, John, "Dannie Abse Revisited," Poetry Wales 13, no. 2 (October 1977): 18-31. (Favorably discusses Collected Poems.)

Ward, J. P., "Science Poetry: Approaches in Redgrove, Abse and Ammons," Poesis 6, no. 2 (1985): 19–46. (Addresses the scientific nature of Abse's poetry, comparing and contrasting it with the poetry of Peter Redgrove and A. R. Ammons.)

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