The Grammar of the Real: Selected Prose 1959–1974 — James McAuley

Author: James McAuley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: First Edition, 1975
ISBN: 0 19 550480 1

Condition: Good second-hand hardcover condition with noticeable shelf wear, foxing, and age toning to the dust jacket and page edges. Binding remains firm and pages are clean throughout. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

The Grammar of the Real collects fifteen years of essays, criticism, literary commentary, and cultural reflections from one of Australia’s most influential twentieth-century poets and intellectuals.

Spanning literature, philosophy, religion, aesthetics, politics, and poetry, the collection showcases McAuley’s sharp critical voice and deeply considered worldview. Essays discuss Australian and European poetry, modernism, language, metre, social change, and writers including Milton, Wordsworth, Solzhenitsyn, and Georg Trakl.