Nationality (poem)

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"Nationality"
by Mary Gilmore
First published inThe Australian Poetry 1942 edited by Robert D. Fitzgerald
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Publication date1942

"Nationality" is a poem by Australian poet Mary Gilmore. [1] It was first published in Australian Poetry 1942, edited by Robert D. Fitzgerald in 1942, [2] and later in the poet's collection Selected Verse, and other Australian poetry anthologies.

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The poem examines the conflicting emotions raised by war: the love of one's own people, and the desire for an international sense of brotherhood.

Analysis

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states that in this poem Mary Gilmore "while conceding the need for internationalism, acknowledges the pre-eminent claims of race and blood". [3]

In her collection of critical essays on Australian literature, Australian Classics: 50 great writers and their celebrated works, Jane Gleeson-White found the poem is "a concentration of intense and conflicting emotion in two stanzas." She concluded that the poem "has the force of truth." [4]

Writing about the poem in 60 Classic Australian Poems editor Geoff Page called it "political poetry at its best." He went on to conclude that even "if the concept of 'nationalism' were to disappear from the human vocabulary, we'd still need Gilmore's poem to remind us of what it had been." [5]

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References

  1. ↑ ""Nationality" by Mary Gilmore". Austlit. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  2. ↑ "Australian Poetry 1942 edited by Robert D. Fitzgerald". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  3. ↑ The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature edited by Wilde, Hooton and Andrews, 2nd edition, p510
  4. ↑ Australian Classics: 50 great writers and their celebrated works by Jane Gleeson-White, p54-58
  5. ↑ 60 Classic Australian Poems edited by Geoff Page, University of NSW Press, 2009, pp32-34
  6. ↑ "Selected Verse by Mary Gilmore". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  7. ↑ "The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse edited by Walter Murdoch (OUP, 1950)". Austlit. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  8. ↑ "An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  9. ↑ "A Book of Australian Verse edited by Judith Wright". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  10. ↑ "New Land, New Language : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Judith Wright". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  11. ↑ "The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by John Thompson, Kenneth Slessor and R. G. Howarth". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  12. ↑ "From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  13. ↑ "Mary Gilmore : A Tribute edited by Barrie Ovenden, Dymphna Cusack, and T. Inglis Moore". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  14. ↑ "Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum edited by Geoffrey Dutton". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  15. ↑ "The White Chrysanthemum : Changing Images of Australian Motherhood edited by Nancy Keesing". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  16. ↑ "The Golden Apples of the Sun : Twentieth Century Australian Poetry edited by Chris Wallace-Crabb". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  17. ↑ "The Collins Book of Australian Poetry edited by Rodney Hall". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  18. ↑ "The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  19. ↑ "Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes and Brian MacFarlane". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  20. ↑ "Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry edited by Les Murray". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  21. ↑ "Peace and War : A Collection of Poems edited by Michael Harrison". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  22. ↑ "The Oxford Book of Australian Women's Verse edited by Susan Lever". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  23. ↑ "Family Ties : Australian Poems of the Family edited by Jennifer Strauss". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  24. ↑ "Australian Verse : An Oxford Anthology edited by John Leonard". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  25. ↑ "Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Kathrine Bell". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  26. ↑ "60 Classic Australian Poems edited by Geoff Page". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  27. ↑ "The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Leonard". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  28. ↑ "Australian Poetry Since 1788 edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
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