Les Murray

by Matthews, Steven

• ISBN13: 9780719054488
• ISBN10: 0719054486
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

In the only full critical study of Les Murray's work, Steven Matthews provides a complete account of the poet's career to date. A controversial figure, Murray's version of Australian republicanism has caused heated argument about the future direction of his country as it moves away from its colonial past. With detailed readings of major poems, and literary and cultural contexts surrounding the work, Matthews gives an overview of Murray's place in Australian literature and national thought.

Author Biography

Steven Matthews is Reader in English at Oxford Brookes University.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. x
Chronology	p. xi
Contexts and intertexts	p. 1
This country is my mind: The Ilex Tree and The Weatherboard Cathedral	p. 39
Ethnic radios: Poems Against Economics, Lunch and Counter Lunch, and Ethnic Radio	p. 57
God bless the general poetries? The Boys Who Stole the Funeral, The People's Otherworld, The Daylight Moon and Dog Fox Field	p. 84
Presences: Translations from the Natural World, Subhuman Redneck Poems and Fredy Neptune	p. 121
Critical overview and conclusion	p. 145
Notes	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 167
Index	p. 181
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