Christopher Brennan
Articles
- Review of The Prose of Christopher Brennan, edited by A. R. Chisholm and J. J. Quinn
Christopher Brennan, at the beginning of the university year 1921, became the first Professor of Comparative Literature in Australia. The culture of the new professor…
1 December 1963 - Review of The Poet Militant: Bernard O'Dowd by Hugh Anderson; and Christopher Brennan: Some Recollections by Richard Pennington
Hugh Anderson's sympathetic study of O'Dowd is a useful introduction to his life and work, suggesting new directions of critical and biographical interest. Richard Pennington's…
1 October 1970 - Review of A Study of Christopher Brennan's The Forest of Night by A.R. Chisholm; and The Letters of Hugh McCrae selected by Robert D. Fitzgerald
Professor Chisholm's study of 'The Forest of Night', the difficult central sequence of Brennan's Poems (1913), suffers, I think, from an uncertainty of aim…
1 October 1971 - The Boer War: Paterson, Abbott, Brennan, Miles Franklin and Morant
Discusses Australian literary responses to the Boer War. including Banjo Paterson's dispatches from the Front and J.H. Abbott's first-hand account as a soldier reflect and…
1 October 1985 - Review of The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism by Katherine Barnes
Some years ago a well known anthologist and critic tried to justify his omission of the work of Christopher Brennan from an anthology of modem…
1 October 2008 - The Dismissal of Chris Brennan from the University of Sydney
Kerr recounts the circumstances leading to Christopher Brennan's dismissal from the University of Sydney in 1925.
1 October 1976 - Review of Christopher Brennan, ed. with introduction and notes by Terry Sturm
What has this Portable Edition of Christopher Brennan's work got to offer us? A useful very pointed and challenging selection, including a great deal of…
1 May 1985 - Review of Christopher Brennan: A Critical Biography by Axel Clark
Axel Clark has produced an impressively thorough work of scholarship in this first full length biography of Christopher Brennan. sifting judiciously through the mass of…
1 May 1982 - C. J. Brennan’s A Chant of Doom: Australia’s Medieval War
CHRISTOPHER Brennan's propagandist A Chant ofDoom (1918) has very little value as poetry, and what critics have said about it is adequately damning. Judith Wright's…
1 May 2007 - Defining the Field of Irish-Australian Literature: Challenges and Conundrums
What constitutes Irish-Australian literature – if such a category exists – is by no means clear. This essay seeks to map the field and identify…
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Contributors
- Axel Clark
- Antoine Henri Denat
- Frances Devlin-Glass
- Margaret Kerr
- Andrew Lynch
- Terry Sturm
- Terry Sturm
- Vivian Smith
- Terry Sturm
- Shirley Walker