TY - BOOK ID - 77927244 TI - Collected poems : Lesbia Harford AU - Harford, Lesbia AU - Dennis, Oliver PY - 2014 SN - 1742586767 9781742586762 9781742585352 1742585353 PB - Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Australian poetry KW - Australian poetry. KW - Australian literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77927244 AB - Lesbia Harford (1891-1927) has occupied only a small place in Australian literary history. For decades, she was utterly forgotten, yet, when she died at 36, she left behind three notebooks containing some of the finest lyric poems ever written in Australia. Harford's writing looks both forwards and backwards, blending Pre-Raphaelite influences and plain-speaking with unusual subtlety. At the same time, she was bound inextricably to the period in which she lived. War in Europe, changing attitudes to religion, the suffrage movement, and widespread social upheaval all helped make her one of the f ER -