A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 139
... Esson did not want Australians to take their entertainment from the sentimentalities of C. J. Dennis . Dennis was an anachronism , a man preaching that those who had wallowed in the city muck would find salvation in the bush . Australia ...
... Esson did not want Australians to take their entertainment from the sentimentalities of C. J. Dennis . Dennis was an anachronism , a man preaching that those who had wallowed in the city muck would find salvation in the bush . Australia ...
Page 183
... Esson to do , to treat Australians as a ' distinct nationality ' . The people of Ireland , Yeats told him , created the sagas in less time than the Europeans had been in Australia . Esson should not let his heart be troubled by the ...
... Esson to do , to treat Australians as a ' distinct nationality ' . The people of Ireland , Yeats told him , created the sagas in less time than the Europeans had been in Australia . Esson should not let his heart be troubled by the ...
Page 255
... Esson was delighted . ' Ponnie ' , to him , looked ' just as masterful and dominating as Macartney . At the moment ... Esson to Vance Palmer , n.d. , probably 1926 , Hilda Esson to Nettie Palmer , 6 October 1926 , Louis Esson to Vance ...
... Esson was delighted . ' Ponnie ' , to him , looked ' just as masterful and dominating as Macartney . At the moment ... Esson to Vance Palmer , n.d. , probably 1926 , Hilda Esson to Nettie Palmer , 6 October 1926 , Louis Esson to Vance ...
Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
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