Kenneth Slessor
Articles
- Slessor’s Cook: The Imprudent Hero
Julian Croft's difficulties with certain aspects of 'Five Visions of Captain Cook' ('Slessor's "Five Visions" ', Australian Literary Studies vol. 4, no. 2, 172-74), arise…
1 October 1971 - Review of Critical Essays on Kenneth Slessor Selected and with an Introductory Essay by A.K. Thomson
Professor Thomson's collection of Critical Essays on Kenneth Slessor falls into three parts: two new articles, one by the editor and another by him in…
1 October 1969 - Slessor and Cleveland: A Footnote to ‘Adventure Bay’
Reviewing Slessor's One Hundred Poems for Meanjin Papers, Brian Elliott detected echoes of Hopkins and Eliot, and took Slessor to task for borrowing the…
1 October 1971 - Review of Bread and Wine: Selected Prose by Kenneth Slessor
One of the first images to strike the reader in this selection of Kenneth Slessor's prose writings is that of the author as a young…
1 October 1970 - Review of Kenneth Slessor and The Banjo of the Bush: The Work, Life and Times of A.B. Paterson by Clement Semmler
The first of these two books, is one of the 'Writers and Their Work' series produced by the British Council. Its aim is presumably to…
1 June 1967 - Slessor’s ‘Five Visions of Captain Cook’
A close reading of Slessor’s sequence, focussing on the nature of the visions and the visionaries; the use Slessor makes of his sources; and questions…
1 May 1969 - Notes on Slessor’s ‘Five Visions’
Comments on the differences between Slessor’s own notes on ‘Five Visions’ and Croft’s earlier article.
1 October 1969 - The World Outside Time : Slessor’s Five Bells
'Five Bells' is admired for its imagery, emotional intensity, and the technical proficiency of its verse. The ideas expressed in it embarrass some critics and…
1 October 1971 - Review of Kenneth Slessor by Herbert C. Jaffa
Professor Herbert C. Jaffa, Professor of English and Assistant Dean in New York University, has written the most complete and authoritative book on Slessor and…
1 October 1971 - Norman Lindsay’s ‘Creative Effort’: Manifesto for an Urban Intelligentsia
Discusses Lindsay’s aesthetic theories, mainly in his crucial work Creative Effort, and suggests why these ideas were influential on a long list of other…
1 May 1973 - Captain James Cook and the ‘Passage into the Dark’
Frost briefly outlines Cook's homeward journey of 19 April 1770 in order to argue for certain historical inaccuracies in Kenneth Slessor's representation of the same…
1 May 1970 - Advice to the Middle Aged
An uncollected poem by Kenneth Slessor.
1 May 1992 - Joe Lynch, Bohemian Hero of Five Bells
Prominent among the wilder bohemians of Sydney in the 1920s was Joseph Lynch, a gifted black-and-white artist originally from New Zealand. Jack Lindsay placed him…
1 May 1988 - An Uncollected Poem by Kenneth Slessor
In his early years as a journalist Kenneth Slessor often played the role of court poet for his employers, producing light verse to order for…
1 May 1992 - Review of books by Harry Marks, Douglas Stewart, William Walsh and Ray Willbanks
Julian Croft reviews the following volumes:
I Can Jump Oceans: The World of Alan Marshall, by Harry Marks (Nelson Australia, Melbourne, 1977).
A Man…
1 May 1979 - Review of Considerations: New Essays on Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright, and Douglas Stewart ed. Brian Kiernan, and Australian Poems in Perspective: A Collection of Poems and Critical Commentaries ed. P.K. Elkin
Both these collections of essays on Australian poetry are designed for the student market and will no doubt be duly listed as recommended reading by…
1 May 1979 - Review of Kenneth Slessor, A Biography by Geoffrey Dutton, and The Annotated Such is Life by Joseph Furphy, ed. F. Devlin-Glass, R. Eaden, L. Hoffman, and G.W. Turner
It is strange to think of 1944, with its shortages and paper rationing, as an annus mirabilis for a publisher, but in that year Angus…
1 May 1992 - Review of Kenneth Slessor, by Adrian Caesar, and Kenneth Slessor: Collected Poems, edited by Dennis Haskell and Geoffrey Dutton
One hundred and three poems and two books of light verse are the basis of Adrian Caesar's review of Kenneth Slessor's life and works. The…
1 May 1996 - The Drowned World of Kenneth Slessor
Examines one of Slessor’s central preoccupations—his fascination with drowning—and its significance in Slessor’s work.
1 May 2001 - Sheer Voice and Fidget Wheels: A Study of 'Five Bells'
A close reading of Slessor's poem grounded in consideration of the poetic 'I'. 'Except at certain deliberate points 'Five Bells' tends to make the speaking…
1 May 1988
Contributors
- Julian Croft
- Julian Croft
- Julian Croft
- Julian Croft
- Julian Croft
- John Colmer
- Julian Croft
- Julian Croft
- John Docker
- Alan Frost
- A. M. Gibbs
- Harry Payne Heseltine
- Dennis Haskell
- Peter Kirkpatrick
- Peter Kirkpatrick
- Gerald McCallum
- Ronald McCuaig
- Jeffrey Poacher
- Kenneth Slessor
- K. D. Watson