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Francis Adams and Songs of the Army of the Night: negotiating difference, maintaining commitment.

From: Victorian Poetry  |  Date: 3/22/2002  |  Author: Tasker, Meg

SONGS OF THE ARMY OF THE NIGHT (1888) IS A CLASSIC OF RADICAL SOCIALIST verse in both England and Australia. (1) The author, Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862-93), an English writer who lived in Australia for only six years but was counted by Australian nationalist critics as an Australian in spirit, demonstrates in his political verse an ability to negotiate multiple writing positions and voices in order to reach widely different readerships in both the colonies and the ...

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