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Journal Article

Author
Prichard, Katharine Susannah
Title
Some thoughts on Australian Literature
In
The Realist
Imprint
no. 15, 1964, p. 11
Abstract

In this article Prichard criticises those "academic book worms" who find in Patrick White a new "Australian image". She, instead, praises the "democratic tradition in Australian literature" as represented by Henry Lawson. She urges: "We Australian writers must not let ourselves be betrayed into the vogue for obscurity and obscenity which the avant garde of literary critics, at present, regards as necessary ingredients of a work of the creative imagination."