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'Gwen Cope enjoyed a significant reputation as a gifted Australian child-poet throughout the 1930s. Nevertheless, her two collections remain unacknowledged in the history of Australian literature despite their popularity. This article situates Cope's fairy-poetry against the ideological backdrop defined by adult fairy-poets of the 1930s to reveal fundamental discords between the child-poet writing her vision of fairy-folklore and the canonical writers who aimed to re-conceptualize " faery-lore" in the interests of Australian national literature.' (Author's abstract)
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“She Flings her Elfin Dreams of Mystery” : The Child-Poet Gwen Cope in the Land of “Australian Faery,” 1931–1939
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Subjects:
- The High Road of Australian Verse : An Anthology for Australian Schools 1929 anthology poetry
- Under the Joy of the Sky and Other Verses 1936 selected work poetry
- Australian Fairy Tales 1925 selected work children's fiction
- Wattle Babies 1918 single work picture book
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