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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Fivefathers. Manchester [England] : Carcanet Press, 1994 (OCoLC)623928773 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Les A Murray |
| ISBN: | 1857540875 9781857540871 |
| OCLC Number: | 30436477 |
| Description: | 207 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Kenneth Slessor -- Roland Robinson -- David Campbell -- James McAuley -- Francis Webb. |
| Series Title: | Fyfield books. |
| Other Titles: | Five fathers |
| Responsibility: | presented and edited by Les Murray. |
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Abstract:
'This book,' writes Les Murray, 'presents to British and European readers selections from the work of five leading Australian poets of the generation before mine.' They are, with Judith Wright, A.D. Hope and Gwen Harwood - who are happily available in British editions - key figures in 'a Golden Age of Australian poetry which paradoxically coincided with its greatest marginalisation'. Murray's characteristically vivid and emphatic introductory essays to the poets, of whom he is in a real sense himself made, as heir and successor, and his 'essential' selections from their work, are personal and challenging. He evokes the writers' circumstances, the trajectories of their very different work, and he suggests why their accomplishments have been eclipsed in the wider bourse of English-language literary reputations. The Academy has much to answer for, yet the freedom the poets enjoyed was partly a result of their very neglect by institutions.
Murray strikes effectively against 'that imperial trap of exclusion', making the available map of our century's poetry larger and much richer.
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