Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 Steps into the Forest: Christopher Brennan's Fatal Attraction
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Macainsh challenges the view of previous criticism that the persona of Poems (1913) is in search of God. Macainsh argues instead that the object of the poet's quest is himself which he discovers through the female. This quest instils a craving for unity that can only be achieved through the impossible synthesis of the past and future. Macainsh concludes: "It is the poet's present that bears the curse of what sunders these two".

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Aumla no. 72 November 1989 Z610240 1989 periodical issue 1989 pg. 229-247
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Pathos of Distance Noel Macainsh , Berne : Peter Lang , 1992 Z431676 1992 single work criticism Berne : Peter Lang , 1992 pg. 88-108
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