Title: The two roads taken
Subtitle: A Prose Miscellany
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: Biography, Judaism and literature, Literature and medicine, Physicians, Welsh authors, Essays (single author), Medicine in Literature
Places: Great Britain
People: Dannie Abse
Time periods: 20th century