Wright, Judith - Shirley Walker (essay date 1991)
Shirley Walker (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "Alive, Fourth Quarter and Phantom Dwelling" in Flame and Shadow: A Study of Judith Wright's Poetry, University of Queensland Press, 1991, pp. 176–205, 210.
[In this excerpt, Walker argues that Wright's collections Fourth Quarter and Phantom Dwelling represent a growth in the poet's already estimable talent and vision. Walker contends that in these books Wright brings a variety of new influences and insights to bear on old themes, answering with clarity questions left open by old poems, and finding peace through reconciliation where once she found conflict.]
The poems of Fourth Quarter represent a break-through into a newer and more vigorous poetic world; an expression of that acceptance which [the poem] "Shadow" anticipated, but which the poems of Alive did not quite achieve. This is one of the most thematically unified of Wright's volumes, for the...
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