Phoenix, Volume 1Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 1990 - Commonwealth literature (English) |
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Page 33
... happy in Australia . " She has lived 37 years in England , beginning as a student at Cambridge University's medical school . She adds : " Surely you remember those Australian tourists in their horrible sundresses and barbaric shorts ...
... happy in Australia . " She has lived 37 years in England , beginning as a student at Cambridge University's medical school . She adds : " Surely you remember those Australian tourists in their horrible sundresses and barbaric shorts ...
Page 39
... happy to be mostly symbolic . Perched on legend there , screened by superstition here , He thrives in the real and regular dark ; in the light Hides and sleeps like any murderer . The suggestion in both versions that the owl was merely ...
... happy to be mostly symbolic . Perched on legend there , screened by superstition here , He thrives in the real and regular dark ; in the light Hides and sleeps like any murderer . The suggestion in both versions that the owl was merely ...
Page 40
... happy to be mostly symbolic ' : Perched on legend there , screened by superstition here He thrives in the real and regular dark ; in the light Hides and sleeps like any murderer . 3 While the poet pours irony over the idealisations and ...
... happy to be mostly symbolic ' : Perched on legend there , screened by superstition here He thrives in the real and regular dark ; in the light Hides and sleeps like any murderer . 3 While the poet pours irony over the idealisations and ...
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