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This poem appears in a number of versions from 1856 onwards. For further details, see The Poems of Charles Harpur in Manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in Publication in the Nineteenth Century: An Analytical Finding List by Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins (Canberra: Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, 2002).
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The Ecopoetics of Charles Harpur
2013
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criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology , no. 3 2013; '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) -
Writing Up a Storm: Natural Strife and Charles Harpur
1993
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— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 53 no. 2 1993; (p. 90-113) -
Charles Harpur's 'The Bush Fire' and 'A Storm in the Mountain' : Sublimity, Cognition and Faith
1983
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 43 no. 4 1983; (p. 439-474) 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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Charles Harpur's 'The Bush Fire' and 'A Storm in the Mountain' : Sublimity, Cognition and Faith
1983
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 43 no. 4 1983; (p. 439-474) 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. -
Writing Up a Storm: Natural Strife and Charles Harpur
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 53 no. 2 1993; (p. 90-113) -
The Ecopoetics of Charles Harpur
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology , no. 3 2013; '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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