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Battlefields (poetry collection)

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noted that the collection "maintains earlier ambivalences towards warfare, but the balance here is less towards praising the heroism of war's soldiers ("For Anzac (1939)") and more toward attacking those addressed in "To the War-Mongers"...In a wider sense, however, Gilmore engages with other social
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noted the publication of the collection in an editorial, stating: "This delightful book, with its six score poems and one, proves that the well of poetry in her heart has not dried up, and if they have not all been drawn from that fountain within the last lustrum (though many are quite recent) they
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are all well worth preserving. These pages, as might be expected, have the wistfulness of an aftermath garnered at eventide and tinged with the light of sunset...Her ear has never been dulled to "the still, sad music of humanity" by the glitter and clatter of this swiftly-moving age."
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The collection consists of 124 poems, the majority of which are published for the first time in this volume.
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by Lorna Sage, Germaine Greer and Elaine Showalter, p44
396:"Vignettes : II : Rain in Autumn at Goulburn" 137:(1939) is a collection of poetry by Australian poet 120: 110: 102: 94: 86: 76: 66: 58: 48: 38: 624:The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English 559:The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English 326:"They Hanged a Man on Gallows Hill (Goulburn)" 393:"Vignettes : III : On Such a Night" 8: 520:"In Memoriam (Jessie Mackay of New Zealand)" 21: 151: 571:Dedication: To Hugh McCrae and Raynor Hoff 390:"Vignettes : I : The Harvesters" 20: 399:"Vignettes : IV : The Vineyard" 581: 7: 232:"Spain : Isabella to Columbus" 14: 426:"Said the Elizabeth Bay Fig-Tree" 16:Poetry collection by Mary Gilmore 125:Pro Patria and Other Poems  27: 1: 648:Australian poetry collections 562:and political battlefields." 375:"Shall Man Say Beauty Passes" 341:"Edwardian Coronation Anthem" 517:"The Little Shoes that Died" 496:"Randwick Military Hospital" 238:"Written for Neville Cayley" 653:Angus & Robertson books 157:"The Ringer (El Campeador)" 669: 445: 348: 251: 163:"Ode to the Pioneer Women" 160:"Coronation Anthem (1937)" 154: 226:"Memorial (Helen Hughes)" 166:"The Woman of Six Fields" 26: 354:"The Song of Kooralinga" 293:"He Has Not Older Grown" 266:"The Archibald Fountain" 451:"Mariquita De Sapucaay" 338:"Ring Bells So Lightly" 193:"The Old Schoolfellows" 538:"In Life's Sad School" 478:"Vilanelle of Parting" 448:"Horn Mad I' the Moon" 417:"Rittle-Rattle-Rittle" 257:"Wake Not the Sleeper" 115:Under the Wilgas  604:"Dame Mary Gilmore", 511:"Vilanelle to Beauty" 463:"Once E'er She Slept" 244:"I Saw the Beauty Go" 217:"The House of Hourne" 211:"Alison of the Marge" 196:"The Clansman's Call" 608:, 19 August 1939, p4 505:"The Constant Heart" 411:"Honing up the Hill" 372:"Of Certain Critics" 320:"On the War-Mongers" 187:"To My Brother Hugh" 526:"The Night is Long" 469:"Eyes of the Heart" 357:"The Quandong Tree" 344:"Aboriginal Themes" 278:"The Baying Hounds" 263:"An Old Man Speaks" 71:Angus and Robertson 23: 493:"This Have I Seen" 487:"From the Spanish" 408:"The Loving Heart" 360:"The Rogery Birds" 287:"Widow's Pensions" 172:"For Anzac (1939)" 169:"Old Henry Parkes" 62:Poetry collections 643:1939 poetry books 544: 543: 532:"The Ember Flame" 529:"First is of Men" 460:"She Praises Him" 405:"The White Heron" 329:"Christmas Carol" 305:"The Bonnet Shop" 202:"This Many a Day" 184:"The Yarran-Tree" 175:"The Old Brigade" 130: 129: 87:Publication place 660: 627: 616: 610: 606:The Courier-Mail 601: 595: 586: 552:The Courier-Mail 296:"The Sempstress" 284:"Tall Buildings" 152: 121:Followed by 111:Preceded by 78:Publication date 31: 24: 668: 667: 663: 662: 661: 659: 658: 657: 633: 632: 631: 630: 617: 613: 602: 598: 593:by Mary Gilmore 587: 583: 578: 568: 549: 466:"All Yesterday" 441:"Contest I Ask" 420:"The Complaint" 402:"The Wild Plum" 332:"The Fisherman" 317:"Recording Man" 302:"Wintered Life" 299:"The Dead Baby" 190:"El Barcaldino" 150: 95:Media type 79: 34: 17: 12: 11: 5: 666: 664: 656: 655: 650: 645: 635: 634: 629: 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Mary Gilmore
English
Angus and Robertson
Mary Gilmore
Austlit - Battlefields by Mary Gilmore
"Dame Mary Gilmore", The Courier-Mail, 19 August 1939, p4
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1939 poetry books
Australian poetry collections
Angus & Robertson books

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