Author Description

This anthology explores the range of Australian romantic poetry, especially from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Including much esoteric and uncollected material, it explores all types of love - romantic, cynical, elegiac, sentimental, heterosexual and gay - as well as questions of gender, nationalism, landscape and sexuality. Among the poets offering fresh insights into the Australian romantic temperament are Peter Porter, Henry Lawson, A.D. Hope, David Malouf and Gwen Harwood.