The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
Notes
-
An extract from Buchanan's longer poem 'Celtic Mystics : II : The Vision'. Full version can be read here: North Coast and Other Poems (1868)
-
At head of poem: 'A vision of what life would be if death were not accompanied by disease of the body. Men longer sicken and die, but "vanish upon God" when His spirit calls them, leaving no mortal trace behind, no pale corpses, no funeral preparations, no quiet graves. The idea is exquisitely worked out, and it is very finely shown how the physical accidents of death assuage instead of embittering the agony inseparable from it.' – Spectator
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Last amended 22 Oct 2014 09:19:50
Export this record
