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'Ecopoetics has to do with the realisation of the relationship between human beings and the biosphere. It reflects on what it might mean to dwell with the earth. Before one's country can become accepted as a dwellilng place for the writer's imagination, it must first be discerned, experienced, expressed, and as it were fully engaged. The foreignness of the Australian environment as envisaged by the early European settlers, together with the exploitive ideology of colonialism, proved challenging for colonial writers such as Charles Harpur who felt a sense of connection to the place.This paper examines Harpur's work to determine if it qualifies as ecopoetics as understood in recent studies of literature in relation to the environment. It also seeks to establish his work as a resource for current environmental thinkers, as a point of reference for the consideration of the pre-colonial communicative exchange with this land. His emphasis is on vision: both in a temporal and a transcendental sense.' (Publication abstract)
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The Ecopoetics of Charles Harpur
Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology
Subjects:
- A Poet's Home 1842 single work poetry
- The Dream by the Fountain 1843 single work poetry
- Dawn in the Australian Forest 1851 single work poetry
- The Ineffable 1857 single work poetry
- The Creek of the Four Graves 1845 single work poetry
- The Poet 1862 single work poetry
- A Storm in the Mountains 1856 single work poetry
- The Kangaroo Hunt or a Morning in the Mountains : A Descriptive Poem in Six Parts : Preface 1863 single work criticism
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