Good for the Soul

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Publisher : UWA Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1760802018
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)

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Book Synopsis Good for the Soul by : Toby Davidson

Download or read book Good for the Soul written by Toby Davidson and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first days as Prime Minister, John Curtin presented himself to the press as a self-styled intellectual who loved sport and relaxing, when he could, with a book, beach walk, game of cards or fossick in the garden. He also revealed that he enjoyed poetry so much that he held to a Sunday night poetry ritual. Curtin was Australia's third wartime Prime Minister, Labor's eighth Prime Minister, and the first Prime Minister from a Western Australian electorate. 'Toby Davidson reveals a new perspective on John Curtin: the poetry of his times, and the poems he himself read. As Davidson shows, Curtin's poetry reading and his reflections upon it influenced his thoughts and language from his socialist youth to the last days of his leadership of a nation transformed by global peril. Good for the Soul: John Curtin's Life with Poetry is a unique, patiently researched and fascinating re-evaluation of Australia's revered wartime Prime Minister.' – John Edwards, author of John Curtin's War Volume I & II 'A stunningly comprehensive account which shows a side of John Curtin we have only glimpsed before. Davidson skilfully traces how poetry was Curtin's companion and ally from his humble beginnings in rural Victoria to his death in office in 1945, two months before the end of World War II.' – Professor David Black, editor of In His Own Words: John Curtin's Speeches and Writings and Friendship is a Sheltering Tree: John Curtin's Letters 1907 to 1945.

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521658430
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature by : Elizabeth Webby

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature written by Elizabeth Webby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable reference for the study of Australian literature.

Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry

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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621967948
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry written by Toby Davidson and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian poetry is popularly conceived as a tradition founded by the wry, secular and stoic strains of its late-nineteenth-century bush balladeers Adam Lindsay Gordon, Henry Lawson and ‘Banjo’ Paterson, consolidated into a land-based ‘vigour’ in publications such as the Bulletin. Yet this popular conception relies on not actually consulting the poetry itself, which for well over one hundred and fifty years has been cerebral, introspective, feminine and highly — even experimentally — religious. This book casts Australian poetry in a new light by showing how Australian Christian mystical poetics can be found in every era of Australian letters, how literary hostilities towards women poets, eroticism and contemplation served to stifle a critical appreciation of mystical poetics until recent decades, and how in the twentieth century one Australian Christian mystical poet began to influence another and share their appreciations of Dante, Donne, Traherne, Blake, Wordsworth, Brontë, Rossetti, Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot and Lowell.

Douglas Stewart

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Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780642106216
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Douglas Stewart by : Susan P. Ballyn Jenney

Download or read book Douglas Stewart written by Susan P. Ballyn Jenney and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson

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Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743320345
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson written by John Shaw Neilson and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942) is Australia's great lyric poet. A new introduction by Dr Helen Hewson explores some of the influences which have shaped Neilson's poetry.

Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils

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Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743320140
Total Pages : 430 pages
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Book Synopsis Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils by : Paul Eggert

Download or read book Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils written by Paul Eggert and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as he struggled to forge a career, writing short stories and sketches for the newspapers. Lawson's famous collection came out at a decisive moment for the development of a fully professional Australian literary publishing industry, then in its infancy in Sydney. The volume's editing, design and production were collaborative events that changed the feel and nature of Lawson's writing. He had to give ground on his texts and their sequencing. The collection went on to be reprinted and repackaged countless times. Its production and reception histories act like a geological cross-section, revealing the contours of successive cultural formations in Australia. In unravelling the life of Lawson's classic work Eggert's book-historical approach challenges and clarifies established understandings of crucial moments in Australian literary history and of Lawson himself

Australian Writers, 1915-1950

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Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
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Book Synopsis Australian Writers, 1915-1950 by : Selina Samuels

Download or read book Australian Writers, 1915-1950 written by Selina Samuels and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2002 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The starting date for this volume is central to Australia's self-definition; it is the year of the most famous battle in Australian military history - Gallipoli, during World War I. It marked the first time that Australians fought as a nation rather than part of the British military, and the Gallipoli campaign has come to signify a legendary image of the Australian character - one who is brave in the face of danger, stoic in adversity, and loyal to ones comrades.

A Concise History of Australia

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131644113X
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis A Concise History of Australia by : Stuart Macintyre

Download or read book A Concise History of Australia written by Stuart Macintyre and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 225 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land and describes how they brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. The fourth edition incorporates the far-reaching effects of an export and investment boom in the early years of the twenty-first century that lifted Australia to unprecedented prosperity. The sale of minerals and energy enabled the economy to withstand the global financial crisis of 2007–08 but there was no agreement on how the wealth was to be managed and its benefits distributed. The book describes a continuing search for solutions to climate change, the unauthorised arrival of refugees, Indigenous disadvantage and generational change.

Courage a Grace

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Publisher : Melbourne University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
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Book Synopsis Courage a Grace by : William Henry Wilde

Download or read book Courage a Grace written by William Henry Wilde and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1988 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed biography of Dame Mary Gilmore's life which spanned the period 1890-1962.

Dust Bowl

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137589078
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis Dust Bowl by : Janette-Susan Bailey

Download or read book Dust Bowl written by Janette-Susan Bailey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the ‘dust bowl’ concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive dust storms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggered a major national and international media event and generated imagery describing a failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a new American Desert. Dust Bowl traces the evolution of this imagery to Australia, World War Two and New Deal-inspired stories of conservation-mindedness, soil erosion and enemies, sheep-farmers and traitors, creeping deserts and human extinction, super-human housewives and natural disaster and finally, grand visions of a nation-building post-war scheme for Australia’s iconic Snowy River‒that vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.

The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore

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Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN 13 : 9780702234866
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore written by Mary Gilmore and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 2004 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together, for the first time, the works of Australia's foremost female poet of the first half of the twentieth century.It features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted poetry related media & organisations.With unrivalled access to Gilmore's work, this superb volume features more than 500 previously unpublished poems.Mary Gilmore is considered by many to have been Australia's foremost female poet of the first half of the twentieth century.This superb volume brings together all her poems - from 1887 to 1929 - and presents readers with an unrivalled and enlightening view of a poet who was able to demonstrate radical political ideals, whilst at the same time be praised for the 'womanliness' of works such as Marri'd and Other Verses and The Passionate Heart.For the first time, these poems stand side by side, presenting readers with a truly revealing picture of Gilmore's oeuvre.

Meanjin

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Randolph Stow: Critical Essays

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Publisher : UWA Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1760801992
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Book Synopsis Randolph Stow: Critical Essays by : Kate Leah Rendell

Download or read book Randolph Stow: Critical Essays written by Kate Leah Rendell and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randolph Stow (1935–2010) was a writer who resisted critical containment. His complete oeuvre of eight novels, a children's novella, a libretto, translation work and several collections of poetry presents an accomplished and impressive literary legacy. The collection republishes a number of significant essays but also presents new readings acknowledging the remarkable skill as well as the limitations of Stow's literary imagining. All are a testimony to the resonance of Stow's writing while acknowledging the critical complexities of his work. 'Commencing this project with the simple ambition to present a critical collection responding to the full breadth of Randolph Stow's work, I extended an invitation to literary scholars and critics whose work I knew addressed his writing. The responses were encouraging and generous, confirming the wide reach of interest in Stow's life and literature. It reminded me that while not as comprehensively studied as some of his contemporaries, Stow continues to enjoy the support of broad public and academic readership.' — Kate Rendell

The Time to Write

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Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Time to Write by : Kay Ferres

Download or read book The Time to Write written by Kay Ferres and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays by contemporary Australian women writers which reflect on the historical and cultural insights to be gained from the lives and works of earlier Australian women writers such as Miles Franklin, Barbara Baynton, Mary Gilmore and Ethel Turner. Includes endnotes. The editor teaches women's studies and Australian studies at Griffith University in Queensland.

Three Radicals

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Three Radicals by : William Henry Wilde

Download or read book Three Radicals written by William Henry Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Australian Literary Manuscripts in North American Libraries

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Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780642106902
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Australian Literary Manuscripts in North American Libraries by : Nan Bowman Albinski

Download or read book Australian Literary Manuscripts in North American Libraries written by Nan Bowman Albinski and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle

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Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743329296
Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle written by Paul Eggert and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (1813–68) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life-documents open up successive phases of colonial culture from the 1830s to the 1860s in a newly focused way. Harpur’s two-way correspondence with poet Henry Kendall, and with poet and future premier of NSW Henry Parkes, is especially impressive. The letters selected for this edition document Harpur’s life in a previously unavailable way. They reveal the intriguing struggle of a high-minded young man to pursue a serious vocation as a poet amidst the unpromising contours of colonial New South Wales society. Despite bearing the taint of a convict family background, Harpur took his vocation with utmost seriousness and had much to endure before he would find recognition as a poet, mainly in colonial newspapers where his poems made over 900 appearances. This edition captures the process in detail, as well as the production in 1883 of his Poems in book form. Even though editorially mangled, Poems confirmed his reputation and led to his presence in dozens of anthologies down to the present day.