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Mead examines the poetry of Charles Harpur in terms of the poet's attempt to move from colonial to national modes of expression. Mead proceeds by exploring the allegorical nature of some poems as signs of Harpur's attempt to exhibit the original Australian voice to which he aspired. But, allegoresis, Mead suggests, opposes the poet's romanticising of origins because of the gap between the signs of expression and the experience of the poet. What is found when one seeks "origins" in Harpur's poetry is not a "unitary or easily traceable historical origin" but the "divisions and anxieties" of Harpur's allegory.
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Charles Harpur's Disfiguring Origins : Allegory in Colonial Poetry
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Charles Harpur's Disfiguring Origins : Allegory in Colonial Poetry
Australian Literary Studies
Subjects:
- The Dream by the Fountain 1843 single work poetry
- The Tower of the Dream 1851-1853 single work poetry
- The Witch of the Hebron: A Rabbinical Legend 1984 single work poetry
- The Vision of the Rock 1842 single work poetry
- 1800-1899
- 1860s
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