Australian Poems in Perspective: A Collection of Poems and Critical CommentariesPeter Kingsley Elkin Takes a close and critical look at Australia's most notable poetry. this book is in fact a collection of critical essays, each containing at least one poem of significant Australian poet. The writers of the commentaries are established critics (some of them ares also poets), who are familiar not only with Australian poetry but also with English, American and European literature generally, for one of the main objects of the book is to take a fresh look at the most famous and some of the most notable recent Australian poems in the context of poetry generally. |
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Christopher Brennan The Wanderer L A C Dobrez | 11 |
Shaw Neilson The Orange Tree Annette Stewart | 37 |
Kenneth Slessor Captain Dobbin Leonard Burrrows | 51 |
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