Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments We are very grateful to Dannie Abse for permission to use his material. We are also grateful to several of his publishers. Both the University of Pittsburgh Press and the University of Georgia Press have been most understanding. The poems "X-ray" and "A winter visit" are © 1983 by the University of Georgia Press, and originally appeared in One-Legged on Ice. The other Abse poems are reprinted from Collected Poems by Dannie Abse by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press © 1977 by Dannie Abse. The essays appearing here are from A Strong Dose of Myself, published by Hutchinson in London, © 1983 by Dannie Abse. The essay "Doctor and Magus in the Work of Dannie Abse" is © 1984 by Daniel Hoffman. We are pleased to have the permission of Howard B. Gotlieb, Director of Special Collections, Boston University, to use the Halberstam letters, and we are grateful to Elliott Jones, Michael Halberstam's widow, for her patience and support. The poems by John Stone are from In All This Rain, Louisiana State University Press, 1980, © 1980 by John Stone. Finally, we should like to thank the American Review of Canadian Studies for permission to reprint portions of the Jane Moss article, "The Morbid World of the Quebec Novel," which appeared in Spring 1980, Volume X, Number 1, pp. 39-49, where it was titled "Pathological Images in the Quebec Novel." ...