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In a Convex Mirror single work   poetry   "See, in the circle how we stand,"
  • Author:agent Rosemary Dobson http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/dobson-rosemary
Issue Details: First known date: 1942... 1942 In a Convex Mirror
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Guide to the Classics : The Poetry of Rosemary Dobson Peter Kirkpatrick , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 13 September 2018;

'In the first century BCE the Roman poet Horace proposed that, “A poem is like a picture”, meaning that, like painting, poetry engages in mimesis by imitating life, copying it in a fixed medium. But what happens when art imitates art, as in Australian poet Rosemary Dobson’s poem, For the Painter Ben Nicholson, about the work of the British modernist?' (Introduction)

Over the Frontier : The Poetry of Rosemary Dobson Veronica Brady , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Poetry and Gender : Statements and Essays in Australian Women's Poetry and Poetics 1989; (p. 105-127) Caught in the Draught: On Contemporary Australian Culture and Society 1994; (p. 191-220)
Rosemary Dobson : The Influence of Art Robyn S. Heales , 1974 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 6 no. 3 1974; (p. 249-258)
Discusses Dobson's so-called painting-poems.
Rosemary Dobson's Sense of the Past John F. Burrows , 1970 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 30 no. 3 1970; (p. 163-176)
Over the Frontier : The Poetry of Rosemary Dobson Veronica Brady , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Poetry and Gender : Statements and Essays in Australian Women's Poetry and Poetics 1989; (p. 105-127) Caught in the Draught: On Contemporary Australian Culture and Society 1994; (p. 191-220)
Rosemary Dobson : The Influence of Art Robyn S. Heales , 1974 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 6 no. 3 1974; (p. 249-258)
Discusses Dobson's so-called painting-poems.
Rosemary Dobson's Sense of the Past John F. Burrows , 1970 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 30 no. 3 1970; (p. 163-176)
Guide to the Classics : The Poetry of Rosemary Dobson Peter Kirkpatrick , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 13 September 2018;

'In the first century BCE the Roman poet Horace proposed that, “A poem is like a picture”, meaning that, like painting, poetry engages in mimesis by imitating life, copying it in a fixed medium. But what happens when art imitates art, as in Australian poet Rosemary Dobson’s poem, For the Painter Ben Nicholson, about the work of the British modernist?' (Introduction)

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