Child with a Cockatoo and Other Poems
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.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In this luminous and masterfully crafted mid-century collection, acclaimed award-winning poet Rosemary Dobson delivers Child with a Cockatoo and Other Poems, an essential cornerstone of Australian lyric verse. Celebrated as her third major anthology, the volume fully realizes Dobson’s signature aesthetic—an extraordinary synthesis of classical art history, literature, and pristine poetic design. The heart of the collection features her renowned "Poems from Paintings" sequence, highlighted by the brilliant title poem, which draws vivid inspiration from a Renaissance-era portrait. Through an elegant, conversational, yet highly disciplined narrative voice, Dobson explores the themes of time, memory, and the unique ability of great art to exist outside the boundaries of human mortality. Moving fluidly from European galleries to intimate observations of the natural world, this scarce 1955 first edition hardback, complete with its original dust jacket, stands as an invaluable reference copy for literary historians, students of Australian modernism, and dedicated collectors of classic post-war poetry.
Author: Rosemary Dobson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In this luminous and masterfully crafted mid-century collection, acclaimed award-winning poet Rosemary Dobson delivers Child with a Cockatoo and Other Poems, an essential cornerstone of Australian lyric verse. Celebrated as her third major anthology, the volume fully realizes Dobson’s signature aesthetic—an extraordinary synthesis of classical art history, literature, and pristine poetic design. The heart of the collection features her renowned "Poems from Paintings" sequence, highlighted by the brilliant title poem, which draws vivid inspiration from a Renaissance-era portrait. Through an elegant, conversational, yet highly disciplined narrative voice, Dobson explores the themes of time, memory, and the unique ability of great art to exist outside the boundaries of human mortality. Moving fluidly from European galleries to intimate observations of the natural world, this scarce 1955 first edition hardback, complete with its original dust jacket, stands as an invaluable reference copy for literary historians, students of Australian modernism, and dedicated collectors of classic post-war poetry.