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.

Sielanki polskie z różnych pisarzów zebrane.

Half-title: Wybor pisarzow polskich: Poezya.

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

Title vignette.

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.

Greek pastoral poets : Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus /

Mode of access: Internet.

Student poem composed by Jacob Abbot Cummings, 1799 September 16

Handwritten poem composed by Jacob Abbot Cummings when he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The rhyming poem celebrates morning (as a metaphor for life) and describes the farmer, industrious milk maid, and market man. It begins, “Loud speaks the clarion of approaching day..." The poem is labeled "16 September 1799 Cummings" and is headed with a quote from John Milton's Paradise Lost: "Sweet in the breath of morn, her rising sweet, with song of earliest bird."

The complete works in verse and prose of Edmund Spenser /

Vol. 10 ("Glossarial index, with notes and illustrations on every word, person and thing, in the entire works") never published?

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

Mode of access: Internet.

Bucolici Graeci /

Mode of access: Internet.

Sny i rzeczywistość.

Mode of access: Internet.

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

'Dissertatio inauguralis', Halle.

Britannia's pastorals.

Errata: p. [12] at beginning.

Theocritus, Bio et Moschus /

Text in Greek.

England's Helicon

Short-title catalogue no. 3191.