Anthems, 'ranthems', and otherwise loves: nationalism in Australian poetry
- Written by Kevin Brophy, Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne
Dorothea MacKellar's My Country, with its paen to a sunburnt landscape, excoriated Australians for their nostalgic love of English 'grey-blue' countryside and English weather.Mark Wassell/flickr, CC BY-NCA young woman of 23, Dorothea MacKellar (1885-1968), had a poem published in the London Spectator in 1908, titled Core of My Heart. She was the...