Geoffrey Lehmann
Autore di Australian Poetry Since 1788
Opere di Geoffrey Lehmann
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- 18
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- 2
- Utenti
- 81
- Popolarità
- #222,754
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- 3.7
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- 2
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- 22
Lehmann and Gray have not just skirted controversy; they've plunged right into it. Their choice of poems will no doubt infuriate some areas of Australian culture, and I share some of that. (The decision not to include A.D. Hope's masterful "Advice to Young Ladies" because it is, the editors mention, "too rhetorical", perhaps sums up this book.) But I'm also delighted by the anthology. It's by no means definitive - but what could be?
Everyone will have their favourites - for me, I'm delighted to see the Jindyworobaks well represented - and those who don't quite cut the mustard, but isn't that poetry?… (altro)