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4 unusual facts about Jindyworobak Movement


Jindyworobak Movement

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

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

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.

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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