Selected poems
Slessor, Kenneth, 1901-19711993
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First published in 1944 under title: One hundred poems. From his historical series 'Five visions of Captain Cook', to his memorial to the loss of a friend, 'Five bells', from the tragic landscape of El Alamein, made famous in 'Beach burial', to the medita
Main title:
Selected poems / by Kenneth Slessor. Introduction by Dennis Haskell and notes by the author
Imprint:
Pymble N.S.W. Angus & Robertson 1993
Collation:
146 pages
Contents:
Earth-visitors - Nuremburg - Pan at Lane Cove - Taoist - Rubens' Innocents - Marco Polo - Chessmen - Mangroves - Thief of the moon - Heine in Paris - Winter dawn - A surrender - The man of sentiment, part one - The man of sentiment, part two - Theives' kitchen - Stars - The ghost - Undine - Next turn - City nightfall - Adventure Bay - A sunset - Realities - Music - Captain Dobbin - The atlas - To myself - Elegy in a botanic garden - Trade circular - Five visions of Captain Cook - Wild grapes - La Dame du Palais de la Reine - Waters - Glubbdubdrib - Rubens' Hall - Burying friends - Crow country - Serenade - Talbingo - Country towns - A bushranger - Gulliver - Fixed ideas - The country ride - The nabob - Toilet of a dandy - Metempsychosis - Mephistopheles perverted - The old play - The king of Cockooz - Post-roads - Dutch seacoast - Mermaids - The seafight - Crustacean rejoinder - Out of time - Sleep - Sensuality - Lesbia's daughter - The Knife - Cock-crow - North country - South country - Last trams - Advice to psychologists - Vesper-song of the Reverend Samuel Marsden - To a friend - William Street - Cannibal Street - To the poetry of Hugh McCrae - Full orchestra - Five bells - Polarities - An inscription for Dog River - Beach burial - Some notes on the poems - Index to first lines
ISBN:
0207182981 (pbk)
Dewey class:
AUST821.3 SLE
Local class:
AUST821.3
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
132414
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