Songs Of Love And Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - moderate marks and specks. Foxing on prelims and book block.
Published in 1917, Songs of Love and Life is a landmark collection of Australian poetry that boldly chronicles the full emotional arc of romantic passion — from its intoxicating heights to its most tender and sorrowful depths. Zora Cross composed this work as a sonnet sequence, a form she wielded with remarkable technical mastery, presenting love not as an idealized abstraction but as a vivid, embodied, and deeply human experience. The collection caused considerable stir upon its release for its frank and sensuous treatment of desire, marking Cross as one of the most daring and original voices in early twentieth-century Australian literature. Written with lyrical intensity and an unflinching emotional honesty, the verse illustrates how love shapes identity, fuels creativity, and ultimately defines the contours of a life fully lived. Songs of Love and Life remains a celebrated and historically significant work, recognized as a pioneering achievement in Australian women's poetry.
Author: Zora Cross
Format: Hardback
Published: 1917, Angus & Robertson Limited
Genre: Poetry
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - moderate marks and specks. Foxing on prelims and book block.
Published in 1917, Songs of Love and Life is a landmark collection of Australian poetry that boldly chronicles the full emotional arc of romantic passion — from its intoxicating heights to its most tender and sorrowful depths. Zora Cross composed this work as a sonnet sequence, a form she wielded with remarkable technical mastery, presenting love not as an idealized abstraction but as a vivid, embodied, and deeply human experience. The collection caused considerable stir upon its release for its frank and sensuous treatment of desire, marking Cross as one of the most daring and original voices in early twentieth-century Australian literature. Written with lyrical intensity and an unflinching emotional honesty, the verse illustrates how love shapes identity, fuels creativity, and ultimately defines the contours of a life fully lived. Songs of Love and Life remains a celebrated and historically significant work, recognized as a pioneering achievement in Australian women's poetry.