Author

Publication

2003 - Enitharmon Press, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

62,250 words, Guess

Page Count

249 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads4260216
  • LibraryThing6138364

Classifications

  • DDC821/.914
  • LCCPR6001.B7 Z473 2003

Description

"Dannie Abse's prose anthology draws together essays and autobiographical material spanning a lifetime of writing and practising medicine. We are treated to amusing anecdotes of Abse's time as a trainee-doctor in wartime Britain, as well as more serious pieces on the Holocaust, Jewishness and the impact literature has had on his medical work. His detailed critical essays on poets ranging from Keats to Plath allow us to engage with his own poetic principles: 'I believe all poetry should be written out of a personal predicament and should be necessary; that there is an unconscious aspect to poetry, that it's not all on the surface.'"--Jacket.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography.

Other Editions

  • The two roads taken: a prose miscellanyEnitharmon Press2003-01-01

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