Starting from Melbourne: The Coherence of Chris Wallace-Crabbe

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  • Michael Sharkey

Keywords:

Chris Wallace-Crabbe, satire, light verse, language

Abstract

The article traces the trajectory I observe in Wallace-Crabbe’s writing since his first poetry publication. The focus is on his consciousness of the paradox of language’s ability to express what Auden called “unmentionable private concerns”—and, I would add, “unmentionable” aspects of public life. The essay necessarily dwells only fleetingly on several divagations from the coherence I observe in his critical writing and his poetry

Author Biography

Michael Sharkey

Associate Professor, lecturer in rhetorical analysis and literature; reviewer and critic, author of several volumes of poetry.

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