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4 days ago · Suzanne said she was very excited to be at the State Library, which she last visited to attend the memorial of her friend ‘the late great Les Murray’. She named Murray as a significant infuence on her work along with English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, Judith White and the ‘incomparable’ William Shakespeare.
PREMIUM An illustration in the French poet Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) features a decaying skeleton, by artist Félix Bracquemond. The collection includes the ...
3 days ago · In his first major publication, in 1932, New Bearings in English Poetry, Leavis produced a series of close readings of W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, defining what was new and influential about their poetry. 33 Leavis’s analysis operated in the manner of Eliot’s criticism, setting out his arguments with the support of close textual examination.
4 days ago · Percy Bysshe Shelley ( / bɪʃ / ⓘ BISH; [1] [2] 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets.
2 days ago · A boyfriend laughed at Les Murray’s “The Cows on Killing Day,” and I broke up with him. Another former student said of the fantastic “Poem to Shout in the Ruins” by Louis Aragon that it “did absolutely nothing for” her.
5 days ago · In literature, the prizewinning poets Judith Wright and Les Murray encompassed a range of causes in their writing and public influence, including Aboriginal rights, conservation, and cultural politics. Eric Rolls brought a new voice to many genres while engaging with similar themes.
2 days ago · Taylor's three volumes of the Historic Survey of German Poetry appeared in 1828, 1829, and 1830. Sir Walter Scott, in the last year of his life, wrote from Abbotsford on 23rd April 1832 to Taylor to protest against an allusion to 'William Scott of Edinburgh' being the author of a translation of Goetz von Berlichingen .
