Australian eco-pastoral poetry

Les Murray and Judith Wright are two Australian poets who are widely read as landscape poets. While this framing offers valuable insights into their work it often fails to bring the importance into a contemporary context or to recognise the long tradition Australia has had with , to use Leo Marx’ term, “the complex pastoral”. As Ruth Blair reminds us in her chapter “Hugging the Shore: The Green Mountains of South-East Queensland” in The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and their Writers it is accepted that North America has a tradition of the complex pastoral mode but it should be remembered that Australia also has a long history of this form. Both Judith Wright’s and Les Murray’s poetry encourages active campaigning for the environment .These Australian poets are eco-pastoral poets whose poetry encourages active reading rather than passive reflections. Their poetry speaks to the strong connection between the lived everyday landscape and the imagination of past, present and future. Their work is imbued with a strong sense of ecocritical awareness while at the same time drawing on pastoral conventions. These two Australian poets do not offer idealistic pastoral notions but rather reveal the complexities of lived human/nonhuman relationships. This paper will discuss these complexities and how poetry can be experienced as literature in action—ways for readers to connect with and negotiate with the land they inhabit. The research for this paper was, in part, drawn from the responses that local community library groups offered after reading the works of these poets. What became evident from this research was the way the poetry made the readers think not only of landscape as a place of refuge from the urban technological world but also as a contemporary place with connection to agency that motivates readers into active change.

Nicholas Breton, Pastoral poems; George Wither, Selected poetry; William Browne (of Tavistock), Pastoral poetry.

Large paper ed., limited to 250 copies.

Römische säkularpoesie; neue studien zu Horaz' XVI. epodus und Vergils IV. ekloge,

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De temporibus, quibus Vergili Georgica scripta et perfecta sint : dissertatio... /

'Dissertatio inauguralis', Halle.

Identity as radical alterity : critiques of Eurocentrism, coloniality and subjectivity in contemporary Australian and Latin American poetry.

This article presents a comparative analysis of Australian and Latin American contemporary poetry which is informed by theories of Eurocentrism derived from contemporary Latin American critical thought.

Exercises in translation from English poetry into Greek and Latin verse /

Mode of access: Internet.

Latin poetry: lectures delivered in 1893 on the Percy Turnbull memorial foundation in the Johns Hopkins university,

Mode of access: Internet.

Undying voices: the poetry of Roman Britain

An anthology (comprising introduction, text, translation, and notes) of Britain's most ancient (surviving) poetry (Latin/Greek, with an English translation).

England's Helicon, a collection or lyrical and pastoral poems: published in 1600,

Title vignette.

Le latin mystique : les poètes de l'antiphonaire et la symbolique au moyen âge : préface inédite de l'auteur /

Includes index.

The Falls of Clyde : or, The fairies; a Scotish dramatic pastoral, in five acts. With three preliminary dissertations.

"Introduction, consisting of three dissertations, I. On-fairies. II. On the Scotish language. III. On pastoral poetry" : p.[3]-101.

Readings from Latin verse,

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Greek pastoral poets : Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus /

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Francisco Granizo: el poeta que invoca el momento primigenio (In memoriam)

Michelena Otero, Sofía Gabriela","ECUADOR","SIGLO XX","2011","Este artículo está dedicado a uno de los poetas más lúcidos y coherentes de la poesía ecuatoriana: Francisco Granizo Ribadeneira (Quito, 1925-2009). En una primera parte, se desarrollan algunos aspectos biográficos del poeta, esto permitirá que los lectores se acerquen de una manera mucho más humana y familiar a la vida de Granizo, conozcan al niño y al hombre que fue y, así, se intuyan ciertas características que están reflejadas en su poesía. Granizo nunca mencionó nada de su vida personal, nadie lo buscó para saber de él ni de su trabajo académico y diplomático, por esta razón es importante hacerlo aquí, para reivindicar su labor de poeta y de hombre de cultura. Luego se realiza un análisis de los tres ejes temáticos relevantes en la poesía de Granizo. En primer lugar, el amor, ese eterno desencuentro con el ser amado que representa y se fusiona al tiempo con la naturaleza, con Dios, con el momento primigenio y, al final, con la muerte. En segundo lugar, el misticismo, ese ímpetu religioso que gobierna la relación hombre-Dios y que obliga a que la voz poemática permanezca en una constante búsqueda de lo absoluto, es decir, del Origen. Y, en tercer lugar, la blasfemia, ese momento caótico, desesperante y contradictorio que surge como una consecuencia del fracaso amoroso y místico.