Dannie Abse

Dannie Abse was a British poet and writer (1923–2014). He was born at Cardiff and died at London.

Also recorded as Danny Abse; Abse, Dannie; Daniel Abse.

Dannie Abse in brief

Born
1923
Died
2014
Known for
poet and writer
Place of birth
Cardiff
Contents

Identity and origins

The authorities additionally record the headings Danny Abse, Abse, Dannie and Daniel Abse. His recorded language was English.

He married Joan Abse.

Formation and teaching

Dannie Abse studied at University of Wales, King's College London, St Illtyd's Roman Catholic High School and Westminster Hospital.

Recognition and collections

Dannie Abse received Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Cholmondeley Award and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Catalogued works

56 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1949 to 2007.

Dannie Abse - New and Collected Poems. Running Late. Goodbye, Twentieth Century. Speak, Old Parrot. Two for Joy. New Selected Poems. Yellow Bird, The. Intermittent journals. There was a young man from Cardiff. Touch wood : poems and a story. Listening to voices from Wales : short stories. People. The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas. Music Lover's Literary Companion. New and collected poems, dated 2003. Selected Poems. ARCADIA ONE MILE. Wales in verse. Dannie Abse. Speak Old Parrot. Corgi modern poets in focus. Doctors & patients. Cardiff central. The Hutchinson book of post-war British poets. In Extra Time. Ode to Love. Touch wood. The eccentric, dated 1961. Favourite Love Poems. Ask the Moon. More words. The Gregory anthology, 1991-1993. Fire in heaven. My medical school. Goodbye Twentieth Century Library of Wales. Portrait of a Marriage After every green thing, dated 1949. Voices in the gallery. The strange case of Dr. Simmonds & Dr. Glas. Dannie Abse, D. J. Enright, Michael Longley. MODERN POETS IN FOCUS. Miscellany one. "Under the influence of...". Penguin Modern Poets (Penguin modern poets ; 26). Poems for Shakespeare. Be Seated, Thou. 100 Great Poems of Love & Lust. After every green thing. Ask the bloody horse. My medical school / Dannie Abse [and others] ; edited and introduced by Dannie Abse., dated 1978, held by Wellcome Collection. The presence / Dannie Abse., dated 2007, held by Wellcome Collection. Intermittent journals / Dannie Abse., dated [1994], held by Wellcome Collection. Medicine on trial / Dannie Abse., dated 1967 [i.e. 1968], held by Wellcome Collection. Doctors & patients / compiled by Dannie Abse., dated 1984, held by Wellcome Collection. Goodbye, twentieth century : an autobiography / Dannie Abse., dated 2001, held by Wellcome Collection. Poems / by Dannie Abse, a poet of today., dated 1970, held by Wellcome Collection. The two roads taken : a prose miscellany / Dannie Abse., dated 2003, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 15 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

7 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Abse, Daniel [Dannie] (1923–2014), physician, poet, and author, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018. Dannie Abse, The Lancet, 2003. Abse, Dannie (1923–), Encyclopedia of Global Health, 2008. Dannie Abse (1923–2014), London, 2015. Dannie Abse, The Lancet, 1997. The Doctor-Writer and the Boundaries of Literariness: The Case of Dannie Abse, Lea, 2025. Science as an Antagonist in Dannie Abse's poetry, Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2024.

Naming and authority record

This heading is established in VIAF (78771064). Those registers additionally record the forms Dannie Abse, 1923-2014, Dannie Abse, 1923-, Dannie Abse Welsh poet and writer, Dannie Abse, Brits dichter (1923-2014), Dannie Abse, britischer Autor and Dannie Abse, bardd Cymreig a sgwennai yn Saesneg.

Digitised editions and texts

11 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

collected poems 1948-1976 (1977) — Internet Archive. Poetry Supplement Compiled by Dannie Abse for the Poetry Book Society, Christmas '75 (1975) — Internet Archive. Selected Poems (1970) — Internet Archive. New Poems (1956) — Internet Archive. Corgi Modern Poets in Focus: 5 (1973) — Internet Archive. Dannie Abse (1963) — Internet Archive. Funland: A Poem in Nine Parts (1973) — Internet Archive. Corgi Modern Poets In Focus: 3 (1971) — Internet Archive. THree questor plays (1967) — Internet Archive. Ash on a young man's sleeve. (1989) — Internet Archive. penguin modern poets (1975) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 16 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 12 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

Dannie Abse studied at University of Wales, King's College London and St Illtyd's Roman Catholic High School. the recorded working language is English.

Membership is recorded of Royal Society of Literature.

Distinctions recorded are Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Cholmondeley Award and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Chronology

  1. 1923Dannie Abse born at Cardiff.
  2. 1956New Poems digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1963Dannie Abse digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 1970Selected Poems digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1973Corgi Modern Poets in Focus: 5 digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 1975Poetry Supplement Compiled by Dannie Abse for the Poetry Book Society, Christmas '75 digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 1977collected poems 1948-1976 digitised by Internet Archive.
  8. 2014Dannie Abse died at London.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    “Dannie Abse”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1164478: Dannie Abse

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