This new edition of Brennan' greatest work is introduced by award-winning poet David Brooks, and includes Brennan's correspondence with the French symbolist poet, Stephane Mallarme. ‘Brennan is one of the first legendary figures in Australian literature. Unresponsive to, and seemingly uninfluenced by, the forces of nationalism and radicalism that dominated the contemporary Australian scene, he was a literary enigma standing apart from his own social and literary milieu, finding instead a literary affinity with the French symbolist writer (Mallarme) ... he was clearly part of the international mainstream of writing that gave rise to poets such as T. S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats.'
