A Frame of Reference: Rosemary Dobson’s Grace Notes for Humanity
Abstract
Mitchell argues that the 'keynote of [Dobson's] poetry ... is an underlying delicate gravity, in which she calmly accepts some aspect of loss, or reconciles human expectation with fate, yet manages to include a hint of the subdued passions which authenticate the human reference ... Rosemary Dobson has a classical awareness or mortality and temporality'.
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Published 1 May 1981 in Volume 10 No. 1. Subjects: Literary career, Literary influences, Literary portrayal, Writer's research & sources, Rosemary Dobson.
Cite as: Mitchell, Adrian. ‘A Frame of Reference: Rosemary Dobson’s Grace Notes for Humanity.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 1981, doi: 10.20314/als.8ccd5ad18e.