Learning Human (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Les A. Murray
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Time of Work: The twentieth century, with glances at previous eras
- Setting: Australia, mainly northern New South Wales, with glimpses of other areas around the world
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Tradition, Twentieth century, Religion, Despair, Hope, Christianity, Death or dying, Catholics or Catholic Church, Jesus Christ, Fire, Australia or Australians
- Locales: Australia, New South Wales, Australia
Every generation seems to have an Australian poet who, alone of all Australian poets, attracts recognition across the world and possesses an easy entrée into the literary and publishing worlds of New York and London. In the generation of the early to mid-twentieth century, it was A. D. Hope (1907-2000); in the mid- to late twentieth century, Les A. Murray merits the distinction; for the generation of the late twentieth century to the early twenty-first century, it is shaping up, as of 2000, to be John Kinsella (1963-). Murray is arguably the most distinguished of these three, yet his...
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