Forlorn Beauty single work   poetry   "O I HAVE seen one flaming peak at dawn"
Issue Details: First known date: 1935... 1935 Forlorn Beauty
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    y separately published work icon Gumtops Rex Ingamells , Adelaide : F. W. Preece , 1935 Z241389 1935 selected work poetry Adelaide : F. W. Preece , 1935 pg. 5
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    y separately published work icon Desiderata no. 24 1 May 1935 Z1795724 1935 periodical issue 1935 pg. 23
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems Rex Ingamells , Melbourne : Georgian House , 1944 Z131810 1944 selected work poetry Melbourne : Georgian House , 1944 pg. 12
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    y separately published work icon The Jindyworobaks Brian Elliott (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1979 Z354916 1979 anthology poetry criticism extract St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1979 pg. 5

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Poetry in South Australia I. M. Foster , 1936 single work criticism
— Appears in: Desiderata , 1 August no. 29 1936; (p. 17-19)
'When I was asked to write this article, I was at once confronted with the difficulty which ultimately must assail every critic in a contribution such as this, not whether to be merely categorical, but to say whether or not there exists in South Australia a body of representative work in which may be found evidence of true poetry. Whether there has been in the verse that exists imagination, creativeness, a tradition, a culture, a direct living note, an expression in words of the beauty of nature, or the things that affect man's spirit and his life. I do not think there has. Such verse as has been written is largely ephemeral, external, and fugitive. It does not constitute, taken as a whole, a permanent and consolidated body of work, through which one might see the national spirit or ethos as one does in English, Irish, German, and French poetry.' (From author's introduction)
Poetry in South Australia I. M. Foster , 1936 single work criticism
— Appears in: Desiderata , 1 August no. 29 1936; (p. 17-19)
'When I was asked to write this article, I was at once confronted with the difficulty which ultimately must assail every critic in a contribution such as this, not whether to be merely categorical, but to say whether or not there exists in South Australia a body of representative work in which may be found evidence of true poetry. Whether there has been in the verse that exists imagination, creativeness, a tradition, a culture, a direct living note, an expression in words of the beauty of nature, or the things that affect man's spirit and his life. I do not think there has. Such verse as has been written is largely ephemeral, external, and fugitive. It does not constitute, taken as a whole, a permanent and consolidated body of work, through which one might see the national spirit or ethos as one does in English, Irish, German, and French poetry.' (From author's introduction)
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Subjects:
  • Bush,
  • Country towns,
  • Alice Springs, Southern Northern Territory, Northern Territory,
  • Oodnadatta, Far North South Australia, South Australia,
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