The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore Volume Two 1930-1962 Edited by Jennifer Strauss The Academy Editions of Australian Literature

Gilmore, Mary; Strauss, Jennifer (ed)

ISBN 10: 0702234850 / ISBN 13: 9780702234859

Published by University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 2007

About this Item

Volume 2 of Mary Gilmore's Collected Verse, from the UQP Academy Editions of Australian Literature series, offering meticulously researched editions of the Australian classics; edited by Jennifer Strauss, with editor's foreword, chronology, and preface; gives alternative readings of poems where relevant, annotations for contemporary references/allusions, etc; blue cloth boards with gilt titling to front and spine; Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper. Very Good. 832pp (xxxvi). 8vo. Very Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore Volume Two 1930-1962 Edited by Jennifer Strauss The Academy Editions of Australian Literature
• Publisher: University of Queensland Press, Brisbane
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0702234850
• ISBN 13: 9780702234859
• Binding: hardbound
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 2 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Australian Poetry

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Synopsis

This book brings together, for the first time, the works of Australia's foremost female poet of the first half of the twentieth century.It features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted poetry related media & organisations.With unrivalled access to Gilmore's work, this superb volume features more than 500 previously unpublished poems.Mary Gilmore is considered by many to have been Australia's foremost female poet of the first half of the twentieth century.This superb volume brings together all her poems - from 1887 to 1929 - and presents readers with an unrivalled and enlightening view of a poet who was able to demonstrate radical political ideals, whilst at the same time be praised for the 'womanliness' of works such as Marri'd and Other Verses and The Passionate Heart.For the first time, these poems stand side by side, presenting readers with a truly revealing picture of Gilmore's oeuvre.

About the Author

Jennifer Strauss is Associate Professor of English at Monash University. She has published two other critical studies of Australian literature, is a widely published poet, and edited the acclaimed The Oxford Book of Australian Love Poems (1993).