Henry Kendall
Articles
- Review of Australian Poets series
Alec King reviews five volumes of Australian poetry published by Angus and Robertson in 1963: Victor Daley, Selection and Introduction by H.J. Oliver; Charles…
1 December 1964 - Burke and Wills and the Colonial Hero: Three Poems
Sellick discusses three poems that respond to the ill-fated Burke & Wills expedition of 1860: Henry Kendall's The Fate of the Explorers, Burke and Wills…
1 October 1971 - Kendall’s Views on Contemporary Writers : A Survey of His Correspondence
Donovan examines Kendall’s letters in relation to the poet’s critical views of himself and of some of his Australian and English contemporaries.
1 June 1964 - Review of The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall edited by T.T. Reed, and The Landscape of Australian Poetry by Brian Elliott
In 1851 Arthur Hugh Clough was an applicant for the Chair of Classics in Sydney University. His application failed, and the appointment was given to…
1 October 1968 - New Light on Henry Kendall
Clarke provides a short biographical sketch of the period following immediately upon Kendall's return to Sydney from Melbourne in October 1870. It discusses his being…
1 June 1966 - The Support of Literature in Colonial Australia
Stewart discusses the economic condition and patronage of writers and the literary marketplace in colonial Australia, focusing particularly on the tropes of the 'Neglected Writer'…
1 October 1980 - Henry Kendall’s Religion
Goodwin’s investigation of Kendall’s religious persuations takes as a starting point a suggestion by Douglas Sladen (in A Century of Australian Song, 1888) that…
1 May 2002 - ‘From the Lips of a Lady’: Mrs A.M. Hamilton-Grey’s First Biography of Henry Kendall
Hamilton-Grey, who published three books on Henry Kendall in the 1920s, has remained a little-known figure in Australian literary history, although her biographies of Kendall…
1 May 2004 - Person, Persona and Product: Henry Kendall and ‘Steele Rudd’
Arthur Hoey Davis, a diffident twenty-six-year-old clerk, invented 'Steele Rudd' in 1894 as the nom de plume for a rowing column. The pseudonym grew, like…
1 May 1996 - Review of Dream and Disillusion: A Search for Australian Cultural Identity' by David Walker, *Darron Field's Memoirs of Wordsworth edited by Geoffrey Little, and Henry Kendal by W.H. Wilde
David Walker's book will be of more interest to historiographers than to literary critics. Subtitled 'A search for Australian cultural identity', it examines the formative…
1 October 1978 - Review of Henry Kendall: Poetry, Prose and Selected Correspondence ed. Michael Ackland, and Henry Kendall--The Muse of Australia ed. Russell McDougall
Henry Kendall has been one of the Jess neglected of 19th century Australian writers. For all his misfortunes and the wretchedness of some aspects of…
1 October 1993 - Henry Kendall’s Twofold Life: Sin, Shame and the Experience of Colonial Poetry
In an essay entitled 'Old Manuscripts', published in the Freeman sJournal in 1877, Henry Kendall offers one of colonial literature's most emblematic indictments of the…
1 October 2010 - Harpur’s Notes and Kendall’s Bell Birds
ARLES HARPUR (1813-1868), a Currency Lad poet of convict parentage, is at present receiving considerable attention from students of Australian literature, and it is expected…
1 May 1972 - The Radiant Dream : Notes on Henry Kendall
Mitchell looks to Kendall’s poetry for a “system of images that amount to a loose poetic philosophy, an attitude of mind that is formulated emotionally…
1 October 1969
Contributors
- Donovan Clarke
- Donovan Clarke
- Jill Dimond
- Ken L. Goodwin
- Alec King
- James McAuley
- Andrew McCann
- Adrian Mitchell
- Elizabeth Perkins
- Robert Sellick
- Ken A. Stewart
- Ken A. Stewart
- V. Smith
- Vivian Smith