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Article: Australian Poetry: Romanticism and Negativity and Writing in Hope and Fear: Literature as Politics in Postwar Australia.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Australian Poetry: Romanticism and Negativity. By PAUL KANE. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1996. viii+296 pp. [pound]35; $59.95.
Writing in Hope and Fear: Literature as Politics in Postwar Australia. By JOHN McLAREN. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1996. ix+245 pp. [pound]35;$64.95.
It has long been a truism that Australian literary critics divide into two categories, those with a political (generally Australian nationalist) agenda, and those who seek to foreground the formal, metaphysical, and 'universal' aspects of the texts they study. At first sight these two books appear to fall on ...