Essays on Poetry and Ideas in Contemporary Australia
What has Australia got that gets into the minds of Les Murray, A.D. Hope, Antigone Kefala, Robert Gray, Judith Wright and a stack of other creative geniuses who make it their business to interpret our country for us? Martin Harrison distils years of thoughtful insight in this striking collection of essays.
Watermarks is dedicated to green literature and theories. Its poetry and prose questions the nature of place and of writing's capacity to sing the more-than-merely-human world. Eric Rolls, Noni Sharp, Robert Adamson, Margaret Somerville, Tom Griffiths and Herb Wharton each discuss the poetics and the politics of place.
His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of Am
Published to coincide with the commemoration of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, this is a selection of observations and insights from `America's greatest poet', carefully curated from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with journalist Horace Traubel.
W.H. Auden at Work: The Craft of Revision explores revision in the poetry of W.H. Auden, focusing on Auden's early sonnet sequences, "A Voyage," and "Sonnets from China." It enumerates in great detail the substantial changes Auden made to those sequences over the course of thirty years. Auden's observations are an amalgam of abstract ......
​This acclaimed book recovers and explores an important tradition of 19th-century women's poetry - from Felicia Hemans to Charlotte Mew. It is impressive in scope, is highly original in its aims, and is established as the chief critical work in its field.
Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land argues a prosodically explainable literary case regarding how a hidden phenomenon of verbal transformation serendipitously turns the conspicuous message of despair into the message of hope hidden in the text of The Waste Land.
This study examines Edgar Allan Poe's influence on the 20th-century French writer Paul Valery, arguing that it was profound. The author shows that Valery's poetics and approach to literary criticism have direct connections to Poe's Philosophy of Composition and Poetic Principle.
This study expands upon literary trauma theory through a reader response approach and examines African American, Native American, and Japanese American poetry from the twentieth century. Special attention is given to the idea of ambivalence in poetry as well as the idea of building community.
