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Ackland finds "intellectual resonances" in Gordon's poetry that produce an "unsuspected degree of conceptual unity". Ackland argues that "Gordon's poetry reveals not a disjunction between darkly meditative and healthy action poetry, but an ongoing and unavailing endeavour to find new grounds for individual affirmation".
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That Shining Band : A Study of Australian Colonial Verse Tradition
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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1994
Z463297
1994
single work
criticism
Rejecting the apparently common perception that Australia's national identity was first expressed in verse by the balladists of the 1890s, Ackland explores the thematic developments of early colonial poets, both men and women, whose place in Australia's literary history he believes to have been largely undervalued.
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A Martial Code : Meditation and Action in the Verse of Adam Lindsay Gordon
Westerly
Westerly
Subjects:
- The Late Mr A. L. Gordon : In Memoriam 1870 single work poetry
- Sea Spray and Smoke Drift 1867 selected work poetry
- Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes 1870 selected work poetry
- Ashtaroth : A Dramatic Lyric 1867 single work drama
- Men of Letters in New South Wales 1872 single work essay
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- ca. 1860-1880
- 1870s
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