Francis Webb
Articles
- Centre of Fierceness: Francis Webb’s Vision of the Artist
The recent death of Francis Webb has left a body of work that is unique in circumstance, stature, and conception in Australian poetry There are…
1 October 1975 - Francis Webb’s ‘Sturt and the Vultures’ : A Note on Sources
Francis Webb's interest in Australian explorers has been a continuing one and he has found material tor his major poetic sequences in their characters and…
1 May 1974 - Francis Webb
Dobson recalls her friendship with Francis Webb.
1 May 1974 - Remaking the Middle Ages in Australia: Francis Webb’s ‘The Canticle’ (1953)
Francis Webb's verse-sequence on St Francis of Assisi, 'The Canticle', from Birthday (1953) has been acknowledged as a watershed in his career (Griffith, Life and…
1 May 1999 - Francis Webb’s Challenge to Mid-Century Mythmaking: The Case of Ludwig Leichhardt
Explores Francis Webb's mythmaking through the history and figures of Australian exploration, arguing that 'Webb's search was ultimately neither for gods nor heroes, but for…
1 October 1982 - ‘Death and the Woman’ : Looking at Francis Webb’s ‘Lament for St Maria Goretti’
The article compares Webb’s poem ’Lament’ with sculptures by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. Although the two do not share any religious, philosophic or…
1 May 2004 - ‘Eyre All Alone’: Francis Webb as Mythmaker
Considers Webb's adaptation of Eyre's 'realization of his complete isolation' during his ill-fated exploratory journey of 1841, with particular emphasis on the poem's engagement with…
1 May 1981 - Francis Webb’s Collected Poems
Between 1948 and 1964 Francis Webb published five books of verse, A Drum for Ben Boyd (1948), Leichhardt in Theatre (1952), Birthday (1953), Socrates (1961)…
1 October 1986 - Review of The Gimbals of Unease: The Poetry of Francis Webb by Bill Ashcroft, and A Woman's Voice: Conversations with Australian Poets by Jenny Digby
Bill Ashcroft's monograph on the poetry of Francis Webb is an eccentric but valuable book Some of the eccentricity derives from the poet himself: Webb…
1 October 1997 - Review of God's Fool: The Life and Poetry of Francis Webb by Michael Griffith, and Spirit in Exile: Peter Porter and His Poetry by Bruce Bennett
A properly researched biography of Francis Webb is a valuable occasion. It comes at the cusp, as members of Webb's generation begin to pass away…
1 October 1992 - ‘realer than the Real’ : Francis Webb’s 'Ward Two'
'Ward Two' has long been one of Francis Webb's best known poems, if not the best known, due to the coherence lent it by the…
1 May 1979
Contributors
- Bill Ashcroft
- Bill Ashcroft
- Bernadette Brennan
- Rosemary Dobson
- Martin Duwell
- Martin Duwell
- Patricia Excell
- Patricia Excell
- Michael Joseph Griffith
- Andrew Lynch
- Robert Sellick