Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Preface: A Basis for Comparison vii
4. Contents ix
5. Acknowledgments x
6. 1. The Seas Between 3
7. 2. The Social Context 9
8. 3. The Eighteenth-Century Inheritance 28
9. 4. The Poetry of Adaptation 49
10. 5. The Poetry of Colonial Romanticism and the Problem of the Literary Nationalist 67
11. 6. Advance and Retreat 98
12. 7. Towards a National Tradition : Canada 113
13. 8. Towards a National Tradition: Australia 151
14. Bibliography 191
15. Index 195