Literary influences

Attempts to characterise A.D. Hope's poetry fail very frequently because of a common tendency to see his oeuvre holistically. Simple caricatures emerge, portraying him in…

The Battlers, generally regarded as Kylie Tennant's most successful and probably most characteristic novel, cannot be properly understood without reference to what may conveniently…

James Erskine Calder's brief correspondence with Sir George Grey, noticed by Bruce Ncsbitt in an earlier issue of Australian Literary Studies, consists of half…

Beston points out literary affinities between White and Steinbeck, with particular reference to thematic similarities between Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven and White's first novel…

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…

On close examination, Harpur's general poetics are certainly Wordsworthian (if Wordsworth's name is used as a focus-point in English literature for a complex set of…

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…

Most readers of Furphy are familiar with his terse characterization of the full-sized novel he had written (Such is Life in its first form)…

Both the recent accounts of the growth of interest in Marvell, like that of Legouis before them, neglect to mention the Australian poet Charles Harpur…

It is proposed to restrict comment here to Baylebridge's 'Nationalism' as delineated principally in the sections, 'National Notes' and 'Political Verse' of This Vital Flesh…

How difficult to write this lecture has proved to be. You would think it would be easy to talk about something you have written, but…

Stewart examines the European influence on Maurice Guest and demonstrates how Richardson extended and developed the techniques of J. P Jacobsen and others. Stewart explores…

Reading Bruce Dawe's uncollected juvenilia written during the mid-1940s (and even the few more conservative poems published in the Jindyworobak anthologies under his pen-name, 'Llewelyn…

There was a time, though I think that time is past, when a young girl's first public appearance at a ball was a very significant…

This thoroughly researched article traces the life and work of Dutch-born left-wing activist, theosophist, scholar and poet Willem Siebenhaar who moved to Western Australia in…

"I would like to insist that this paper is serious, but not academic. It is an impressionist piece, even if it relies heavily on metaphors…

Clive Faust describes his approach to poetry, recounts his career, and positions his work in relation to broader national and international poetic and philosophical currents.

Patrick White experiments with language as a symbolic writer with a religious mission. His religion, however, is not that of a Christian although he extols…

Argues that Campbell's poetry 'may be fruitfully approached then, as, at the outset, both the product and the unfolding of unusually sophisticated thought. The rural…

A biography of J.S. (John Streeter) Manifold (1915-1985). See this issue for a number of Manifold's poems.