Baling the Golden Fleece: Baxter’s Jason

An essay on James K. Baxter’s treatment of the Greek hero Jason might seem likely to be as brief as Dr Johnson’s famous chapter on ‘the snakes of Iceland’, which read in its entirety ‘There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.’ The name of Jason never appears in John Weir’s edit...

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Main Author: Miles, Geoffrey
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Victoria University of Wellington 2008
Subjects:
Iceland
Online Access:https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/kotare/article/view/784
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spelling ftvictoriauwelli:oai:ojs.victoria.ac.nz:article/784 2023-12-31T10:08:15+01:00 Baling the Golden Fleece: Baxter’s Jason Miles, Geoffrey 2008-06-11 application/pdf https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/kotare/article/view/784 eng eng Victoria University of Wellington https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/kotare/article/view/784/593 https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/kotare/article/view/784 Copyright (c) 2008 Geoffrey Miles Kōtare : New Zealand Notes & Queries; 2008: Kōtare : New Zealand Notes & Queries 1174-6955 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2008 ftvictoriauwelli 2023-12-05T18:25:56Z An essay on James K. Baxter’s treatment of the Greek hero Jason might seem likely to be as brief as Dr Johnson’s famous chapter on ‘the snakes of Iceland’, which read in its entirety ‘There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.’ The name of Jason never appears in John Weir’s edition of Baxter’s Collected Poems. There are only two passing allusions to episodes in the Jason saga, both in very early poems: to the Sown Men who ‘sprang sprightly’ from dragon’s teeth in ‘To M.A.B.’ (1943; CP 18), and to the ‘Symplegades’ or Clashing Rocks in ‘Letter to Noel Ginn’ (1944; CP 29). Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Open Journal Systems at the Victoria University of Wellington Library
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description An essay on James K. Baxter’s treatment of the Greek hero Jason might seem likely to be as brief as Dr Johnson’s famous chapter on ‘the snakes of Iceland’, which read in its entirety ‘There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.’ The name of Jason never appears in John Weir’s edition of Baxter’s Collected Poems. There are only two passing allusions to episodes in the Jason saga, both in very early poems: to the Sown Men who ‘sprang sprightly’ from dragon’s teeth in ‘To M.A.B.’ (1943; CP 18), and to the ‘Symplegades’ or Clashing Rocks in ‘Letter to Noel Ginn’ (1944; CP 29).
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