SOURCE: A review of The Double Tree, in New York Times Book Review, November 26, 1978, pp. 62, 64.

In this review of Wright's retrospective collection The Double Tree, Pritchard notes an increasing flexibility in Wright's poetic tone, comparing her work to that of D. H. Lawrence and W. B. Yeats.

Judith Wright is an Australian poet, author of 10 books of verse from which the present selection [The Double Tree] has been made. Assuming that American readers need help with work that comes out of an unfamiliar country, she provides an introduction telling us a bit about Australia, of where she was born and brought up (the New England Country of New South Wales), and of her life during World War II and after, her founding of a society for wildlife conservation, her membership on a government committee of inquiry. It is an odd way to introduce one's poems, and in fact...