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Issue Details: First known date: 1961... 1961 Poet
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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    y separately published work icon Socrates and Other Poems Francis Webb , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1961 Z551129 1961 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1961 pg. 35-36
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    y separately published work icon New Impulses in Australian Poetry Rodney Hall (editor), Thomas Shapcott (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1968 Z548090 1968 anthology poetry

    This 'anthology of Australian poetry of the 1960s, was edited, with an introduction, by Rodney Hall and Thomas W. Shapcott. The keynote of these ‘new impulses’ was ‘a suspicion of idealism, and an inbred awareness of the consequences of totalitarian beliefs’. Authoritarianism in religion and politics was eschewed, as was the concept of national and international aggression. Major established poets such as Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright and A. D. Hope are not represented because the editors felt that their poetry of the decade added little to their already defined stances. Their contemporaries, however, Gwen Harwood and Francis Webb, are given considerable space because they are important influences on younger poets.' (Source : The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, online edition)

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1968
    pg. 138-139
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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. 152-153
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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. 215-216
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    y separately published work icon Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum Geoffrey Dutton (editor), Adelaide : Rigby , 1976 Z399014 1976 anthology Adelaide : Rigby , 1976 pg. 204-205
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    y separately published work icon Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry Les Murray (editor), Blackburn : Collins Dove , 1986 Z212505 1986 anthology poetry Blackburn : Collins Dove , 1986 pg. 178-179
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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. 157-158

Works about this Work

Giving a Word to the Sand Noel Rowe , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 45 no. 2000; (p. 151-160)
Francis Webb: Unsaying Transcendence Kevin Hart (editor), 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 60 no. 2 2000; (p. 10-25)
David Malouf, Francis Webb and Australian Religious Consciousness Jim Tulip , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reconnoitres : Essays in Australian Literature in Honour of G. A. Wilkes 1992; (p. 226-237)
David Malouf, Francis Webb and Australian Religious Consciousness Jim Tulip , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reconnoitres : Essays in Australian Literature in Honour of G. A. Wilkes 1992; (p. 226-237)
Francis Webb: Unsaying Transcendence Kevin Hart (editor), 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 60 no. 2 2000; (p. 10-25)
Giving a Word to the Sand Noel Rowe , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 45 no. 2000; (p. 151-160)
Last amended 12 Mar 2010 14:05:04
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