THE MOVING IMAGE: JUDITH WRIGHT'S SYMBOLIST LANGUAGE.(Critical Essay)

From: Southerly | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: HAWKE, JOHN | Copyright information

IN A 1965 interview with John Thompson, Judith Wright was asked if she considered herself a `nature poet'. She replied, `No, I don't. My real interest, I think, is the question of man in nature--man as part of nature. The theory of correspondences that Baudelaire brought forward--the question of nature as a symbol for one's experience has always seemed to me to have a great deal in it.'(1) Thompson is reiterating a misconception common to readers of the poets of the 1940s--one whic...

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