John Shaw Neilson
Articles
- Review of Witnesses of Spring: Unpublished Poems by Shaw Neilson
Douglas reviews *Witnesses of Spring: Unpublished Poems by Shaw Neilson', selected by Judith Wright and Val Vallis from material assembled by Ruth Harrison, edited by…
1 October 1971 - Review of Shaw Neilson and Louis Stone by H. J. Oliver
A dollar may seem a lot to pay for these slim (48 page) monographs, but for the size of the market they could hardly be…
1 October 1969 - The Imagination of John Shaw Neilson
No Australian poet defies criticism as surely as John Shaw Neilson Despite his unevenness, the unostentatious subtlety of his best work, and perhaps the stress…
1 May 1971 - A New Light on ‘The Orange Tree’?
Stewart argues that the “vagueness” critics have found in Neilson’s poetry should be seen as a “mysterious quality”, not a “lack of mastery over syntax…
1 May 1971 - Towards a Reassessment of the MSS of Shaw Neilson
In 1965 Angus and Robertson published The Poems of Shaw Neilson, introduced and edited by Professor A. R. Chisholm. The edition contains 172 poems…
1 October 1968 - The Dual Nature of Shaw Neilson’s Vision
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…
1 May 1972 - Review John Shaw Neilson by Hugh Anderson and L.J. Blake
The dearth of good, full-length biographical studies of significant Australian writers leads one to approach John Shaw Neilson, by Hugh Anderson and L. J. Blake…
1 May 1973 - Shaw Neilson and Mary Gilmore
This letter from Neilson to Miss I. M. Foster (the original is in the Archives of the Public Library of South Australia) is printed with…
1 October 1972 - Some Thievery of Old
A previously unpublished poem by John Shaw Neilson.
1 October 1968 - Review of Struggle and Storm: The Life and Death of Francis Adams, by Meg Tasker, and Jock: A L!fe Story of John Shaw Neilson, by Cliff Hanna
Francis Adams lived the sort of life that cries out for a biography. Born in Malta, a son of the regiment, he spent his youth…
1 October 2002 - ‘The Orange Tree’ and the Limitations of Poetry
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…
1 May 1978 - Review of Poet of the Colours: The Life of John Shaw Neilson by John H. Phillips
I approached the latest Neilson biography: Poet of the Colours, by John H. Phillips with both hope and trepidation. Hope faded as I scanned…
1 October 1989 - The Public Image of John Shaw Neilson
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…
1 May 1986 - Review of The Folly of Spring: A Study of John Shaw Neilson's Poetry by Cliff Hanna, and Dimitris Tsaloumas: Poet by Con Castan
The appearance within the space of a few months of two monograph-length studies of the work of individual poets is an event to savour, especially…
1 October 1990 - Review of Jock: A Life Story of John Shaw Neilson, by Cliff Hanna
John Shaw Neilson lead a remarkable capacity for inspiring devotion in others. Soon after his death in Melbourne 12 May 1942, in one of the…
1 May 2000 - Scattered
A previously unpublished poem by John Shaw Neilson.
1 October 1968 - The Blue Man and the Barley
A previously unpublished poem by John Shaw Neilson.
1 October 1968 - The Uneven Player
A previously unpublished poem by John Shaw Neilson
1 October 1968 - Shaw Neilson’s Poetry
McAuley’s critique of John Shaw Neilson’s poetry identifies a “weakness in diction arising from a certain clumsiness and lack of self-clarification in the poet”. Nevertheless…
1 December 1966 - Woe in the Merriment
A previously unpublished poem by John Shaw Neilson.
1 October 1968
Contributors
- Dennis Douglas
- Dennis Douglas
- Martin Duwell
- Ruth Harrison
- Cliff Hanna
- Cliff Hanna
- Cliff Hanna
- Cliff Hanna
- F. H. Mares
- James McAuley
- John Shaw Neilson
- John Shaw Neilson
- John Shaw Neilson
- John Shaw Neilson
- John Shaw Neilson
- John Shaw Neilson
- Annette Stewart
- Annette Stewart
- Vivian Smith
- Chris Tiffin