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Louise D'Arcens discusses Woolley's lecture on Tennyson's Idylls of the King as 'a vehicle for exploring cultural life in the "young and uncemented" society of the antipodean colony.' D'Arcens writes that 'Woolley's reading of the Idylls provides a fascinating insight into how the Middle Ages could be reinterpreted to characterize Australia's - and especially Sydney's - nascent colonial identity in the mid-nineteenth century' (238).
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D'Arcens' essay makes reference to a letter written by Henry Kendall which contained a disparaging remark on Woolley's admiration for Tennyson 'by rote' (245).
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Antipodean Idylls : An Early Australian Translation of Tennyson's Medievalism
Subjects:
- Lectures Delivered in Australia 1862 selected work criticism prose
- The English Men : Professing Literature in Australian Universities 1997 single work criticism
- 1850-1860
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