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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... poem's precise intention and for words to express what it means . It seems to tease the mind out of familiar ways of thinking , to depart at the end , almost ver- tically , into the unknowable . Neilson's language is part of the poem's ...
... poem's precise intention and for words to express what it means . It seems to tease the mind out of familiar ways of thinking , to depart at the end , almost ver- tically , into the unknowable . Neilson's language is part of the poem's ...
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... poem verges on the nightmarish in its cumulative effect ; indeed , the reader may wonder whether there is not a ... poem's near - perfect clarity : where Lucy shrivels waiting for a word . The " word " , the context suggests , might ...
... poem verges on the nightmarish in its cumulative effect ; indeed , the reader may wonder whether there is not a ... poem's near - perfect clarity : where Lucy shrivels waiting for a word . The " word " , the context suggests , might ...
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... poems - the tenuousness of the drug- user's grip on life : " nothing left but the whim of survival " . The difference between " Bums ' Rush " and the other poems is that in this , all the hard ... poem's centre . The Michael Dransfield / 229.
... poems - the tenuousness of the drug- user's grip on life : " nothing left but the whim of survival " . The difference between " Bums ' Rush " and the other poems is that in this , all the hard ... poem's centre . The Michael Dransfield / 229.
Contents
A B Banjo Paterson The Man from Snowy River Clement Semmler | 1 |
Christopher Brennan The Wanderer L A C Dobrez | 11 |
Shaw Neilson The Orange Tree Annette Stewart | 37 |
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