The Two Roads Taken

by Abse, Dannie

• ISBN13: 9781900564687
• ISBN10: 1900564688
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press

Summary

Dannie Abse's prose anthology draws together essays and autobiographical material spanning a lifetime of writing and practicing medicine. We are treated to amusing anecdotes of Abse's time as a trainee-doctor in wartime Britain, As well as more serio

Author Biography

Dannie Abse is president of the Welsh Academy of Letters.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Authorship and Medicine	p. 11
A Skull in the Wardrobe	p. 14
Following in the Footsteps of Dr Keats	p. 26
The Charisma of Quacks	p. 46
More than a Green Placebo	p. 54
The Experiment	p. 61
Ninian Park Blues	p. 85
Pegasus and the Rocking Horse	p. 99
I Accuse	p. 114
Playing to the Gallery	p. 121
The Dread of Sylvia Plath	p. 125
Without Self-Importance	p. 142
John Ormond, a Neglected Poet	p. 153
Introductions
D. H. Lawrence	p. 160
Ezra Pound	p. 165
Thom Gunn	p. 171
Fleur Adcock	p. 177
Poetry and Poverty Revisited	p. 183
The Ass and the Green Thing	p. 192
Abse's 1984	p. 203
Replies to an Enquiry	p. 221
Interview at Princeton University	p. 229
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