Captain Cook in the underworld / Robert Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Robert, 1967-

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology--Poetry.

Mythology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (50 pages)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

This edition in English.

Summary:

The book is a highly stylised, 'operatic' account of voyages, with similarities to the musical structure of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner', and opera. As the poem unfolds, European myth (Orpheus, Venus, etc) has to make space for Polynesian myth (Maui, Reinga, etc). In the final pages, Cook is required after his death to face up to the damage his expeditions have inflicted on the indigenous peoples of the Pacific.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed August 18, 2014).

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

52565117

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.