Collected Poems: Lesbia Harford by Oliver Dennis - ISBN: 9781742585352
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Lesbia Harford (18911927) has occupied only a small place in Australian literary history for decades, she was utterly forgotten yet when she died, at thirty-six, she left behind three notebooks containing some of the finest lyric poems ever written in Australia.

Collected Poems: Lesbia Harford

Lesbia Harford

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    152 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2014

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Summary

Lesbia Harford (18911927) has occupied only a small place in Australian literary history for decades, she was utterly forgotten yet when she died, at thirty-six, she left behind three notebooks containing some of the finest lyric poems ever written in Australia.

Harford’s writing looks both forwards and backwards, blending Pre-Raphaelite influences and plain-speaking with unusual subtlety. At the same time, Harford was bound inextricably to the period in which she lived: war in Eu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781742585352
ISBN-10:1742585353
Author:Oliver Dennis
Publisher:UWA Publishing
Imprint:UWAP
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:152
Release Date:1 September 2014
Weight:300g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm
About The Author

Oliver Dennis

Oliver Dennis was born in 1974, and attended the Victorian College of the Arts and the University of Melbourne. He has written regularly on poetry for a variety of publications, including Australian Book Review, Island, Meanjin, PN Review (UK), The London Magazine, Antipodes, The Australian and the Times Literary Supplement. He currently teaches violin and chamber music at schools in Melbourne, where he lives with his family.

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