Abstract
'Australian poetry', writes Vivian Smith, 'starts with the indelible stamp of the cultivated amateur'.' It also starts with a mixed inheritance, with established modes of poetic address (particularly odes and elegies) and their accompanying eighteenth-century linguistic fashions; and with an expectation of imaginative freedoms and renovated forms and language promised by the experiments of Romanticism and supported by the hope of adventure in a new land.
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