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Man Friday single work   poetry   "Saved at long last through Him whose power to save"
  • Author:agent A. D. Hope http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hope-a-d
Issue Details: First known date: 1959... 1959 Man Friday
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  • Dedication: For John Pringle

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Friday in Exile
Alternative title: Friday
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry 1959 Nancy Keesing (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1959 Z27586 1959 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1959 pg. 42-48
    Note: With title: Friday
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Quadrant vol. 3 no. 3 Winter 1959 Z623804 1959 periodical issue 1959 pg. 25-28
    Note: With title: Friday in Exile
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Collected Poems 1930-1965 A. D. Hope , New York (City) : Viking , 1966 Z244918 1966 selected work poetry satire humour Collected Poems 1930-1970 Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1972 pg. 122-127
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Selected Poems A. D. Hope : Selected Poems A. D. Hope , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1973 Z370389 1973 selected work poetry This collection ... omits some of the longer pieces in my Collected poems 1930-1970 but brings the selection up to date by the inclusion of a number of poems written since then.' (Author's preface.) Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1973 pg. 79-84
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Age of Reason A. D. Hope , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1985 Z381992 1985 selected work poetry Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1985 pg. 21-27
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Selected Poems A. D. Hope , David Brooks (editor), Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1992 Z552438 1992 selected work poetry Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1992 pg. 61-66
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Australian Poetry Library APRIL; APL; The Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library John Tranter , Sydney : 2004- Z1368099 2004- website

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    The Australian Poetry Library is a joint initiative of the University of Sydney and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). Begun in 2004 with a prototype site developed by leading Australian poet John Tranter, the project has been funded by a major Linkage Grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC), CAL and the University of Sydney Library. A team of researchers from the University of Sydney, led by Professor Elizabeth Webby and John Tranter, in association with CAL, have developed the Australian Poetry Library as a permanent and wide-ranging Internet archive of Australian poetry resources.' Source: www.poetrylibrary.edu.au (Sighted 30/05/2011).

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Works about this Work

Island as Metaphor in A. D. Hope's Man Friday Malati Mathur , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Interfaces 2004; (p. 93-99)
Mathur states that 'The most interesting point in this poem, I feel, is the way in which the island concept is structured to weave in and out of our consciousness as a metaphor.' The island functions 'as a metaphor for the human mind itself.' Mathur concludes that the poem evolves into 'a powerful post-colonial comment on the soul-destroying effects of an assumption of superiority based on race and colour.'
Poems 1977 single work criticism
— Appears in: Survey of Contemporary Literature 1977; (p. 5909-5911)
Island as Metaphor in A. D. Hope's Man Friday Malati Mathur , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Interfaces 2004; (p. 93-99)
Mathur states that 'The most interesting point in this poem, I feel, is the way in which the island concept is structured to weave in and out of our consciousness as a metaphor.' The island functions 'as a metaphor for the human mind itself.' Mathur concludes that the poem evolves into 'a powerful post-colonial comment on the soul-destroying effects of an assumption of superiority based on race and colour.'
Poems 1977 single work criticism
— Appears in: Survey of Contemporary Literature 1977; (p. 5909-5911)
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