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Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 Charles Harpur's 'The Bush Fire' and 'A Storm in the Mountain' : Sublimity, Cognition and Faith
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Ackland examines the relationships between nature and mind and between human and supernatural elements in these two poems, arguing that the elements of sublime verse found there are indices of an attempt to connect Edmund Burke's aesthetic of terror with broader moral and national issues.

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    y separately published work icon Southerly vol. 43 no. 4 December 1983 Z587933 1983 periodical issue 1983 pg. 439-474
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