Volume 6 No. 1 — 1 May 1973

A Prodigious Dilemma: Gwen Harwood’s Professor Eisenbart and the Vices of the Intellect

Dennis Douglas
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Published 1 May 1973 in Volume 6 No. 1. Subjects: Criticism, Literary criticism, Gwen Harwood.

Cite as: Douglas, Dennis. ‘A Prodigious Dilemma: Gwen Harwood’s Professor Eisenbart and the Vices of the Intellect.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 1973. https://doi.org/10.20314/als.70c88fb492.

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