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SECOND HAND BOOK
In this series of related but separate essays, Judith Wright examines the problems of Australian poets, both in relation to their own country and its emergence into nationhood, and in relation to the main stream of Western thought and writing. She begins with a study of the works of Charles Harpur, the earliest poet of importance in Australian literature, who was influenced mainly by Wordsworth and the early Romantics, and carries her survey through to the present day.
She attempts to show, not only the difficulties faced by Australian writers and acclimatizing and adapting the traditions and methods of English and European poets to a wholly new and difficult environment, but the influence on them (acknowledged or unacknowledged) of the climate of Western thought during the years in which they have written, and of the alteration in viewpoint during those years which has been called the ‘breakdown in traditional values’.
The method she has employed is therefore less critical than elucidatory, though critical judgements necessarily emerge in the course of this wider study.
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Good condition. general wear and tear.
Paperback, 227pp, 1965.
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