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Five Visions of Captain Cook

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In the essay "Kenneth Slessor: An Essay in Interpretation" (1997) A. K. Thompson noted: "The more carefully we read Cook's Journals the more impressive and convincing Slessor's reconstruction becomes and also the more unlikely it appears that Slessor was attempting to depict himself. Slessor also
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displays his great skill in marshalling the material that seems to him significant and it must be pointed out, especially in Slessor's case, that this marshalling and handling of significant material needs both skill and intelligence."
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stated that the poem was "Full of memorable lines that attest to Slessor's delight in language..and demonstrates that men who change the face of the world inevitably change the lives of those who associate with them."
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from the reactions of those who sailed with him on his three major voyages."
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My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years
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Austlit - "Five Visions of Captain Cook" by Kenneth Slessor
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Full text of the poem is available at the Poetry Foundation
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Kenneth Slessor : Collected Poems Kenneth Slessor
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edited by Dennis Haskell and Geoffrey Dutton (1994)
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Kenneth Slessor
Kenneth Slessor
James Cook
Captain James Cook
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
1931 in poetry
1931 in Australian literature
Austlit - "Five Visions of Captain Cook" by Kenneth Slessor


"Kenneth Slessor : An Essay in Interpretation" by A. K. Thompson, 1997
"Five Visions of Captain Cook" by Kenneth Slessor - full text
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Australian poems
1931 poems
Kenneth Slessor
James Cook

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