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4 unusual facts about Jindyworobak Movement


Jindyworobak Movement

P. R. Stephensen through The Foundations of Culture in Australia

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Inspiration had been found in P. R. Stephensen's The Foundations of Culture in Australia (1936).

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Ivor Indyk has suggested that the Jindyworobaks were looking for a kind of pastoral poetry, harking back to an Arcadian idyll which was removed from the early pioneer period, back to the pre-colonisation era.

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Although "Jindys" concentrated on Australian culture, not all were of Australian origin - for example, William Hart-Smith who is sometimes connected to them, was born in England, and spent most of his life in New Zealand, with only a decade in Australia itself (1936–1946).



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