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S. T. Gill (1818-1880), The First Landing Place of Captain Cook, Botany Bay, N.S.W. Reproduced by permission of the National Library of Australia MEG TASKER HE TERM "VICTORIAN POETRY" IS ONE THAT AUSTRALIAN CRITICS GENERALLY avoid using, because the state of Victoria, in which the second major Australian city is found, gives the adjective "Victorian" a geographical sense that too frequently obscures its use for historical purposes. Even within the field of nineteenth-century literary and historical studies, however, other reasons exist for being cautious with the term in a colonial Australian context. Complex geographical and cultural factors affected the writing, publishing, reading, and uses of literary texts in English in the Australian colonies. In terms of chronology it is a moot point whether changing phases of literary fashion and influence in Australia followed the same patterns as in Britain. While most nineteenth-century Australians with literary tastes were able to subscribe to many of the same journals and buy a selection of the same books as their English friends and relations, not to mention their North American, Canadian, New Zealand, and other English-speaking cousins, the Victorian period in Australian poetry needs to be distinguished from its British equivalents. Any
Victorian Poetry – West Virginia University Press
Published: Jan 3, 2002
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