I approached the latest Neilson biography: Poet of the Colours, by John H. Phillips with both hope and trepidation. Hope faded as I scanned…
The first five volumes of John Ferguson's monumental Bibliography of Australia are a measure of the enormous task facing the would-be surveyor/interpreter of writing concerned…
John Shaw Neilson once remarked that 'Some people seem to think that it [the lyric] should be as definite as an ironmonger's catalogue, and as…
Describes an inscription written by Henry Lawson to J.F. Archibald in a first edition of Lawson's My Army, O, My Army! And Other Songs (1915).
In a word, let us look at our country and its fauna and flora, its trees and streams and mountains, through clear Australian eyes, not…
This work is primarily a public introduction to the man through his social, political and literary history. The book was written after five years of…
Hanna stresses the importance of the “child-vision” in Neilson’s poetry and its connection to Neilson’s idea of Love. Hanna argues that the two children in…
Hanna argues that Neilson’s “vision” is a fusion of a primitive faith in nature and the christian belief in the Son of God. This fusion…