Charles Harpur
Articles
- Review of Australian Poets series
Alec King reviews five volumes of Australian poetry published by Angus and Robertson in 1963: Victor Daley, Selection and Introduction by H.J. Oliver; Charles…
1 December 1964 - Review of Charles Harpur, An Australian by J. Normington Rawling
J. Normington-Rawling's biography of our first poet appears at a time when there is a real need for biographies and critical editions of the main…
1 June 1963 - Emerson and Charles Harpur
On close examination, Harpur's general poetics are certainly Wordsworthian (if Wordsworth's name is used as a focus-point in English literature for a complex set of…
1 May 1973 - Marvell and Charles Harpur
Both the recent accounts of the growth of interest in Marvell, like that of Legouis before them, neglect to mention the Australian poet Charles Harpur…
1 May 1973 - Charles Harpur and the Myth of Origins
Argues that 'Harpur's drive for historical preeminence gets displaced into considerations of chronology, and that, ultimately, this reveals a Romantic preoccupation with poetic origins'.
1 October 1987 - God’s Sublime Order in Harpur’s ‘The Creek of the Four Graves’
Ackland argues that the poem transcends purely descriptive categories and should be read as prophetic, blank verse narrative in the tradition of Milton and Wordsworth…
1 May 1984 - Review of books by Judith Wright, Peter Quartermaine and Ian F. McLaren
Lawson reviews the following volumes:
Charles Harpur by Judith Wright. New edition. Australian Writers and their Work. (General editor: Grahame Johnston) Oxford University Press, Melbourne…
1 May 1978 - Review of *The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur', ed. Elizabeth Perkins
Elizabeth Perkins' recent and long awaited monumental edition, The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur, is much more comprehensive than the "presentable book' Harpur despaired…
1 October 1984 - Review of books by Elizabeth Perkins, Vincent O'Sullivan, Veronica Kelly, Richard Fotherinham, Peter Putnis and Patrick Morgan
Reviews of the following volumes:
Stalwart the Bushranger, by Charles Harpur, edited by Elizabeth Perkins (Sydney Currency Press in association with Australian Drama Studies, St.…
1 May 1989 - Charles Harpur’s ‘Midsummer Noon’: A Structuralist Approach
Macainsh offers a paradigmatic analysis of the poem to show a “clarity of structure” not detected by other critics. The “element of space” suggested by…
1 October 1978 - Charles Harpur’s Reputation 1853-1858 : The Years of Controversy
Examines a dramatic change in the literary reputation of Charles Harpur and the responses to his work between 1853 and 1858, by which time he…
1 October 1978 - An Early Australian Short Story by Harpur
Some of the chief characteristics of one type of short story commonly said to belong to the 'Lawson' or 'Bulletin' tradition may be found in…
1 May 1976 - Charles Harpur’s Disfiguring Origins: Allegory in Colonial Poetry
Mead examines the poetry of Charles Harpur in terms of the poet’s attempt to move from colonial to national modes of expression. Mead proceeds by…
1 May 1990 - Harpur’s Notes and Kendall’s Bell Birds
ARLES HARPUR (1813-1868), a Currency Lad poet of convict parentage, is at present receiving considerable attention from students of Australian literature, and it is expected…
1 May 1972 - Review of The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver have accomplished an impressive feat of scholarship in collecting and curating a record of settler interaction with the kangaroo from…
30 April 2021 - Defining the Field of Irish-Australian Literature: Challenges and Conundrums
What constitutes Irish-Australian literature – if such a category exists – is by no means clear. This essay seeks to map the field and identify…
30 September 2021
Contributors
- Michael Ackland
- Leon Cantrell
- Julian Croft
- Frances Devlin-Glass
- A. D. Hope
- Alec King
- Paul Kane
- Alan Lawson
- Adrian Mitchell
- Noel Macainsh
- Vijay C. Mishra
- Philip Mead
- Elizabeth Perkins
- Elizabeth Perkins
- Elizabeth Perkins
- Ken A. Stewart