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Book - Poetry Collection, Leonard Mann, The Delectable Mountains, 1944
... Grace Leven Prize for Poetry. Part of a minor but respected poetic body of work reviewers of his later Elegiac collection noted he was 'experimenting with a nubbly, stubbly Anglo-Saxon kind of verse which might have its origin in the Norse Edda, in the Oxford carols, in Skelton, in Donne or in the modern revival of such techniques begun by Gerard Manley Hopkins and carried on by Auden', while adding that 'it cannot be said, full of strength though his best effects are, that Mann always handles these perilous devices like an expert'. ...
The subject volume is a poetry collection; its full title is The Delectable Mountains, and Other Poems, written by the Australian poet and novelist Leonard Mann, and published by Angus & Robertson (Sydney & London) in 1944. It was the third of Mann's four published volumes of poetry, following The Plumed Voice (1938) and Poems from the Mask (1941), and preceding his prize-winning Elegiac and Other Poems (1957). The collection's full bibliographic listing places it as 'The Delectable Mountains, and other poems. Sydney & London: Angus & Robertson, 1944.
Hard cover book. The Delectable Mountains
Author: Leonard Mann
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Date: 1944
Further Information: Blue pattered cloth hardcover with lettering and patterning to front cover in black. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.fictionThe subject volume is a poetry collection; its full title is The Delectable Mountains, and Other Poems, written by the Australian poet and novelist Leonard Mann, and published by Angus & Robertson (Sydney & London) in 1944. It was the third of Mann's four published volumes of poetry, following The Plumed Voice (1938) and Poems from the Mask (1941), and preceding his prize-winning Elegiac and Other Poems (1957). The collection's full bibliographic listing places it as 'The Delectable Mountains, and other poems. Sydney & London: Angus & Robertson, 1944.shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, the delectable mountains, leonard mann
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