Beauty Imposes

"Beauty Imposes"
by John Shaw Neilson
First published in	Beauty Imposes : Some Recent Verse
Country	Australia
Language	English
Publication date	1938
Lines	9
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"Beauty Imposes" is a poem by Australian poet John Shaw Neilson.

It was first published in the poet's collection Beauty Imposes : Some Recent Verse in 1938, and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies.

Further publications

• An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1952
• Shaw Neilson edited by Judith Wright, Angus and Robertson, 1963
• From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore, Angus & Robertson, 1964
• The Penguin Book of Australian Verse edited by Harry Heseltine, Penguin Books, 1972
• Australia's Writers edited by Graeme Kinross-Smith, Nelson Books, 1980
• The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis, Nelson, 1984
• My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years edited by Leonie Kramer, Lansdowne, 1985
• John Shaw Neilson : Poetry, Autobiography and Correspondence edited by Cliff Hanna, University of Queensland Press, 1991
• Selected Poems by John Shaw Neilson, Angus and Robertson, 1993
• Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Kathrine Bell, Gary Allen, 2007
• Collected Verse of John Shaw Neilson edited by Margaret Roberts, UWA Publishing, 2012

Notes

In a letter sent to James Devaney on 20 January 1936 Neilson described this poem as "an attempt to describe in a few lines the thing that so many rhymers tackle. Beauty does create in us a strange wonderment and awe. It is difficult to describe in words the effect that a beautiful nude has upon one's feelings."

See also

• 1938 in poetry
• 1938 in literature
• 1938 in Australian literature
• Australian literature

References