Dannie Abse: Facts & Related Content


Facts

Born September 22, 1923 • CardiffWales
Died September 28, 2014 (aged 91)
Notable Works “After Every Green Thing”

Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Bernard Kops
British playwright, novelist, and poet
James Joyce
James Joyce
Irish author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author
Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
John Berger
British essayist and cultural thinker
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
British author
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
David Lodge
English novelist, literary critic, playwright, and editor