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Malouf and Wordsworth Context

Malouf

· David Malouf was born in 1934 in Brisbane.
· His father emigrated from Lebanon to Australia in the 1880’s and his mother’s family came from England.
· Grew up in the years of the depression and WW2
· The CONTEXT he was writing in was the Australia of the 1970’s, an Australia still struggling to create a national identity distinct from it’s convict origins and it’s ties to Europe and England.
· Australia demanded new ways of perception, attitudes and ways of living.
· Imagery L...