R.D. Fitzgerald

This book falls into quite distinct sections: a thirty-page biography of FitzGerald; a brief summary of FitzGerald's ideas on poetry and poetic craft; a poem-by-poem…

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…

It is as if R. D. FitzGerald tried to do for Australian poetry what William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens did for twentieth century American…

Ryan discusses the convict Maurice Fitzgerald, whose biography inspired both Keneally's novel Passenger and Fitzgerald's poem 'The Wind at Your Door'.

Tracing the poet's recourse to philosophical and theological ideas, Croft argues that 'The Face of the Waters' leaves an impression of 'terror and incomprehension at…

Cantrell reviews the following volumes:

Naught to Thirty-three, by Randolph Bedford (Melbourne University Press, 1976).

The Life and Times of Steele Rudd, by…

R. D. FitzGerald, the poet, talks quietly in the big room, the slight burr in his voice, light falling on his white hair, strong brow…

In judging any poem, it is not only fair but also instructive to consider the poet's intention in his creation of that work, even though…