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"South of My Days"
by Judith Wright
Written1945
First published in The Bulletin
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Publication date8 August 1945

"South of My Days" (1945) is a poem by Australian poet Judith Wright. [1]

Contents

It was originally published in The Bulletin on 8 August 1945, [2] and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. [1]

The poem depicts a landscape of desolation and isolation, both physical and emotional.

Critical reception

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature notes that this poem established Wright "as the poet of the New England countryside." The entry points out it reflects the countryside where Wright was born and that it also contains "fragments of stories from that countryside's pioneer past — drovers and bushrangers, desperate droughts and starving cattle, and the legendary coaches of Cobb & Co." [3]

The Oxford Literary History of Australia stated that with this poem "Wright exceeds even the cultural confidence of other scions of squatting families, fusing an Australian landscape with her own past and with her own body." [4]

Publication history

After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin it was reprinted as follows:

See also

Notes

The full text of the poem is also available at the "All Poetry" website. [26]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Austlit — "South of My Days" by Judith Wright". Austlit. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  2. ↑ ""South of My Days"". The Bulletin, 8 August 1945, p2. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  3. ↑ The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature edited by Wilde, Hooton and Andrews, 2nd edition, p639
  4. ↑ The Oxford Literary History of Australia edited by Bruce Bennett and Jennifer Strauss, 1st edition, p226
  5. ↑ "Australian Poetry 1945". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  6. ↑ "Poets of Australia : An Anthology of Australian Verse (A&R)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  7. ↑ "New Song in an Old Land (Longmans Green)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  8. ↑ "An Anthology of Australian Verse (A&R)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  9. ↑ "The Boomerang Book of Australian Poetry (Longmans, Green)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  10. ↑ "New Land, New Language : An Anthology of Australian Verse (OUP)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  11. ↑ "The Penguin Book of Australian Verse (Penguin)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  12. ↑ "Five Senses : Selected Poems (A&R)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  13. ↑ "Six Voices : Contemporary Australian Poets (A&R)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  14. ↑ "Modern Australian Verse (A&R)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  15. ↑ "Judith Wright : Collected Poems, 1942-1970 (A&R)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  16. ↑ "The Penguin Book of Australian Verse (Penguin)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  17. ↑ "Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum (Rigby)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  18. ↑ "The Golden Apples of the Sun : Twentieth Century Australian Poetry (MUP)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  19. ↑ "My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years (Lansdowne)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  20. ↑ "Two Centuries of Australian Poetry (OUP)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  21. ↑ "A Human Pattern : Selected Poems (A&R)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  22. ↑ "A Treasury of Bush Verse (A&R)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  23. ↑ "Grace and Other Poems (Picaro)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  24. ↑ "Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (A&U)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  25. ↑ "Australian Poetry Since 1788 (UNSW Press)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  26. ↑ ""South of My Days by Judith Wright"". All Poetry. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
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