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Issue Details: First known date: 1952... 1952 The Explorer's Wife
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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    y separately published work icon Leichhardt in Theatre Francis Webb , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1952 Z550908 1952 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1952 pg. 23
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    form y separately published work icon Collected Poems Francis Webb , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1969 Z551447 1969 selected work poetry radio play drama Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1969 pg. 51
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    y separately published work icon Modern Australian Poetry David Campbell , Melbourne : Sun Books , 1970 Z304810 1970 anthology poetry Melbourne : Sun Books , 1970 pg. 211
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    y separately published work icon Cap and Bells : The Poetry of Francis Webb Francis Webb , Michael Joseph Griffith (editor), James A. McGlade (editor), North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 Z352562 1991 selected work poetry drama extract war literature satire North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1991 pg. 76-77
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    y separately published work icon Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature Nicholas Jose (editor), Kerryn Goldsworthy (editor), Anita Heiss (editor), David McCooey (editor), Peter Minter (editor), Nicole Moore (editor), Elizabeth Webby (editor), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009 Z1590615 2009 anthology correspondence diary drama essay extract poetry prose short story (taught in 23 units)

    'Some of the best, most significant writing produced in Australia over more than two centuries is gathered in this landmark anthology. Covering all genres - from fiction, poetry and drama to diaries, letters, essays and speeches - the anthology maps the development of one of the great literatures in English in all its energy and variety.

    'The writing reflects the diverse experiences of Australians in their encounter with their extraordinary environment and with themselves. This is literature of struggle, conflict and creative survival. It is literature of lives lived at the extremes, of frontiers between cultures, of new dimensions of experience, where imagination expands.

    'This rich, informative and entertaining collection charts the formation of an Australian voice that draws inventively on Indigenous words, migrant speech and slang, with a cheeky, subversive humour always to the fore. For the first time, Aboriginal writings are interleaved with other English-language writings throughout - from Bennelong's 1796 letter to the contemporary flowering of Indigenous fiction and poetry - setting up an exchange that reveals Australian history in stark new ways.

    'From vivid settler accounts to haunting gothic tales, from raw protest to feisty urban satire and playful literary experiment, from passionate love poetry to moving memoir, the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature reflects the creative eloquence of a society.

    'Chosen by a team of expert editors, who have provided illuminating essays about their selections, and with more than 500 works from over 300 authors, it is an authoritative survey and a rich world of reading to be enjoyed.' (Publisher's blurb)

    Allen and Unwin have a YouTube channel with a number of useful videos on the Anthology.

    Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009
    pg. 739

Works about this Work

"An Outline of Fullness": Language Bill Ashcroft , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Gimbals of Unease : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1996; (p. 85-113)
y separately published work icon Horizontal Criticism : Language, Consciousness and the Literary Text Bill Ashcroft , Canberra : 1979 19373252 1979 single work thesis 'The history of exegesis in western thought has been marked by a polarisation between those who believe the meaning of anything can be determined once and for all by the simple exercise of our powers of observation and analysis, and those who see meaning as luminous, personal, and changeable through time. Standing like two cities, whose walls encompass most kinds of literary criticism (an opposition perhaps best represented by the methods of historicism and 'New Criticism'), they are the two encampments of pre-conceived method, and we contend that the only way to be truly open to literary texts is to escape to the open ground between them.' (Paragraph one of abstract)
"An Outline of Fullness": Language Bill Ashcroft , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Gimbals of Unease : The Poetry of Francis Webb 1996; (p. 85-113)
y separately published work icon Horizontal Criticism : Language, Consciousness and the Literary Text Bill Ashcroft , Canberra : 1979 19373252 1979 single work thesis 'The history of exegesis in western thought has been marked by a polarisation between those who believe the meaning of anything can be determined once and for all by the simple exercise of our powers of observation and analysis, and those who see meaning as luminous, personal, and changeable through time. Standing like two cities, whose walls encompass most kinds of literary criticism (an opposition perhaps best represented by the methods of historicism and 'New Criticism'), they are the two encampments of pre-conceived method, and we contend that the only way to be truly open to literary texts is to escape to the open ground between them.' (Paragraph one of abstract)
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