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'Leaves of Glass is based on correspondence between Walt Whitman (1819–1892) and Bernard O’Dowd (1866–1953). The letters, more than twenty of which have now been found, were written between 1899 and 1892. At that time, Whitman was at the end of his life and his career, and O’Dowd (whose first collection, Dawnward, would not be published until 1903) was a young legal librarian who wore a blade of grass in his lapel as a tribute to Whitman.' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Epigraph:
'[Christopher] Brennan's contemporary, Bernard O'Dowd,
espoused the cause of nationalism, and attained a far
greater reputation in his day; but unlike Brennan's.
his work has dated badly.'
–Judith Wright
A Book of Australian Verse (1968)
'I am an enigma to myself.'
–Bernard O'Dowd
letter to Walt Whitman, 1890
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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David Prater, Leaves of Glass
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 2 2014; (p. 234-237)
— Review of Leaves of Glass 2013 selected work poetry -
Review : Leaves of Glass
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 364 2014; (p. 42)
— Review of Leaves of Glass 2013 selected work poetry -
‘Distant and Kindred Analogies’ in Recent Australian Poetry
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 59 no. 1 2014; (p. 144-163)
— Review of Threefer 2013 selected work poetry ; Towns in the Great Desert 2012 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion 2013 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013 selected work poetry ; The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Night Writing 2014 selected work poetry ; Even in the Dark 2013 selected work poetry ; Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' 2013 selected work poetry ; Ephemeral Waters 2013 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Leaves of Glass 2013 selected work poetry ; Unearthed 2013 selected work poetry ; Goad Omen 2013 selected work poetry -
Sally Evans Reviews David Prater
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
— Review of Leaves of Glass 2013 selected work poetry
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Sally Evans Reviews David Prater
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
— Review of Leaves of Glass 2013 selected work poetry -
‘Distant and Kindred Analogies’ in Recent Australian Poetry
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 59 no. 1 2014; (p. 144-163)
— Review of Threefer 2013 selected work poetry ; Towns in the Great Desert 2012 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion 2013 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013 selected work poetry ; The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Night Writing 2014 selected work poetry ; Even in the Dark 2013 selected work poetry ; Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' 2013 selected work poetry ; Ephemeral Waters 2013 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Leaves of Glass 2013 selected work poetry ; Unearthed 2013 selected work poetry ; Goad Omen 2013 selected work poetry -
Review : Leaves of Glass
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 364 2014; (p. 42)
— Review of Leaves of Glass 2013 selected work poetry -
David Prater, Leaves of Glass
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 2 2014; (p. 234-237)
— Review of Leaves of Glass 2013 selected work poetry