Les Murray's Mannerist Grotesque

Title: Les Murray's Mannerist Grotesque
Creator: Musgrave, David
Relation: Feeding the Ghost1: Criticism on Contemporary Australian Poetry p. 214-249
Relation: https://www.academia.edu/45641895/Chapter_10_Les_Murrays_Mannerist_Grotesque
Publisher: Puncher & Wattmann
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2018
Description: As Les Murray approaches his 80th birthday it is worth trying to assess the continuity of his achievement over a career that has now entered its 53rd year. In this chapter I approach this through examining, primarily in his later work, what I see as two central, and linked preoccupations — a fascination with distortion, exaggeration and (re)framing, combined with a sense of an abject sexuality. I argue that ‘late’ Murray arrived relatively early, around the time of his return to Bunyah in the late 1980s, when he was in his late 40s, but also that this ‘lateness’ has clear and discernible roots in his early lyric poetry.
Subject: Les Murray; distortion; exaggeration; (re)framing
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1447829
Identifier: uon:43242
Identifier: ISBN:9781921450358
Language: eng