D. H. Lawrence and Judith Wright: overlapping modernisms

Title: D. H. Lawrence and Judith Wright: overlapping modernisms
Creator: Pollnitz, Christopher
Relation: D. H. Lawrence Studies Vol. 20, Issue 2, p. 1-35
Relation: http://kiss.kstudy.com/journal/list_name.asp?key1=29921&key2=2213
Publisher: The D. H. Lawrence Society of Korea
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: Poets and critics have denied the title of Modernist to Lawrence and Wright. In The New Australian Poetry (1979) John Tranter argued that, because of a conservative hostility to experiment, Modernism had bypassed all poets in Australia prior to those included in his anthology. Tranter ignored the Modernist credentials of predecessors like Christopher Brennan, Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright and Les Murray in his introduction, whereas Wright by contrast, in introducing her Book of Australian verse (1968). had nominated Brennan "Australia's first truly 'modern' writer," before naming Francis Webb and Murray as exponents of "experimental writing" in the later twentieth century (BAV 9-11.
Subject: DH Lawrence; Judith Wright; Modernism; Australian poetry
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1294482
Identifier: uon:18809
Identifier: ISSN:1226-4318
Language: eng
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