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"Five Visions of Captain Cook" (1931) is a poem by Australian poet
Kenneth Slessor Kenneth Adolphe Slessor (27 March 190130 June 1971) was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences int ...
about James Cook. It was originally published in the author's collection ''Trio : A Book of Poems'', and later appeared in numerous poetry anthologies.Austlit - "Five Visions of Captain Cook" by Kenneth Slessor
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Outline

The poem "builds the character of
Captain James Cook James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and ...
from the reactions of those who sailed with him on his three major voyages."''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'', 2nd edition, p283


Reviews

In the essay "Kenneth Slessor : An Essay in Interpretation" (1997) A. K. Thompson noted: "The more carefully we read Cook's Journals the more impressive and convincing Slessor's reconstruction becomes and also the more unlikely it appears that Slessor was attempting to depict himself. Slessor also displays his great skill in marshalling the material that seems to him significant and it must be pointed out, especially in Slessor's case, that this marshalling and handling of significant material needs both skill and intelligence." '' The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' stated that the poem was "Full of memorable lines that attest to Slessor's delight in language..and demonstrates that men who change the face of the world inevitably change the lives of those who associate with them."


Further publications

* ''One Hundred Poems : 1919-1939'' by Kenneth Slessor (1944) * ''An Anthology of Australian Verse'' edited by George Mackaness (1952) * ''The Boomerang Book of Australian Poetry'' edited by Enid Moodie Heddle (1956) * ''A Book of Australian Verse'' edited by Judith Wright (1956) * ''Australian Poets Speak'' edited by Colin Thiele and Ian Mudie (1961) * ''A Book of Australian Verse'' edited by Judith Wright (1968) * ''Poems'' by Kenneth Slessor (1975) * ''The World's Contracted Thus'' edited by J. A. McKenzie and J. K. McKenzie (1983) * ''My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years'' edited by Leonie Kramer (1985) * ''Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse'' edited by John Barnes and Brian McFarlane (1988) * ''Kenneth Slessor : Collected Poems Kenneth Slessor'' edited by Dennis Haskell and Geoffrey Dutton (1994) * ''Antipodes : Poetic Responses'' edited by Margaret Bradstock (2011) * ''Australian Poetry Since 1788'' edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray (2011)


External links

* Full text of the poem is available at the Poetry Foundation"Five Visions of Captain Cook" by Kenneth Slessor - full text
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See also

* 1931 in poetry * 1931 in Australian literature


References

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