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The Landscape of Australian Poetry

Brian Robinson Elliott

出版	Cheshire, 1967
主題	Poetry / General
ISBN	08426125219780842612524
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jBBAAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

"In the nineteenth century, landscape was a preoccupation of poetry everywhere, but in Australia it did much more than reflect a fashionable trend abroad. It was not merely a romantic impulse that fed this Australian concern with 'country'. The poets were pioneers: they sought a vision, but they sought a homestead too. They were looking for their own country... A purpose of The Landscape of Australian Poetry is to show how this happened, by following, not the history of all poetry in Australia, but the progressive development of one particular image. Its focus remains on the landscape-image, which provides the key to the rest"--