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‘Vincent Buckley maintained that as an Irish Australian he had grown up as a member of a persecuted minority. He also claimed that, although this minority was crucial in shaping the Australian identity, its members had failed to keep an imaginative connection with their homeland. Much of his work can be read as an attempt to rediscover this link, but his understanding of the Irish element changes over his career. In his earlier work, his concern is with the Irish tradition of WB Yeats and James Joyce, and with his own forefathers as people dispossessed by the heartless English. Later he becomes involved with the fate of the nationalists in Northern Ireland. This leads him both to take direct political action in Australia and to write some of his most significant poems. These show the influence of Seamus Heaney or John Kinsella rather than Yeats, but also bring to bear a distinctly Australian sensibility.’ (38)
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Vincent Buckley and His Land of No Fathers : The Irish Shadow on His Work
Subjects:
- Cutting Green Hay : Friendships, Movements and Cultural Conflicts in Australia's Great Decades 1983 single work autobiography
- Memory Ireland : Insights Into the Contemporary Irish Condition 1985 single work essay
- The World's Flesh 1954 selected work poetry
- Vincent Buckley : Collected Poems 2009 selected work poetry
- Journey Without Arrival : The Life and Writing of Vincent Buckley 2009 single work biography
- Masters in Israel 1961 selected work poetry
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