Selected poems, 1942-1968

by David Campbell

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Title	Selected poems, 1942-1968
Author	David Campbell
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Tags	Australian, poetry
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Your review	http://homepage.mac.com/shawjonathan/... I doubt if David Campbell (1915–1979) is still studied in Eng Lit courses at many Australian unis, but I hope he is fondly remembered and occasionally reread by more than just me. He and Martin Johnston share a posthumous moment in John Forbes's elegiac 'Lassù in Cielo'; a recent Poetica featured his correspondence with Douglas Stewart; lines and images from his poems arrive in my mind unbidden from time to time. Most of the poems in this selection are a strange mixture of the bucolic and the erudite (and just in case I've misused those words, I mean rustic and scholarly), and there's a pleasant music to them. When I read the sequence of twelve twelve-line rhyming poems of 'Cocky's Calendar', I found myself wondering how he managed to pick up his pen again after writing something so wonderful. Back in the early 1970s, in an Aust Lit seminar on this sequence, a student from North America totally didn't get them: while the rest of us were being drawn into the poetry's intensely personal relationship with the landscape, he lost patience altogether and said the whole thing read like verse you'd find on a Norman Rockwell calendar. I thought then that he was missing something, and I find I still do.
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Publication	Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1968. 128 p. ; 23 cm.
Publication date	1968
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LC classification	PR8259.A462 S45
Dewey	A821/.3 19
Primary language eng	English
Secondary language	(blank)
Original language
Date acquired	1970-04-13
Date started	2008-04-13
Date finished	2008-04-14
Summary 1	Selected poems, 1942-1968 by David Campbell (1968)
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Number of copies	1
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Data source	National Library of Australia

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