R.D. Fitzgerald
Articles
- Review of Robert D. FitzGerald by A. Grove Day
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…
1 May 1975 - 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 - Review of Robert D. FitzGerald ed. Julian Croft; and A Tribute to David Campbell, A Collection of Essays ed. Harry Heseltine
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…
1 October 1987 - Some Convict Sources in Keneally and Fitzgerald
Ryan discusses the convict Maurice Fitzgerald, whose biography inspired both Keneally's novel Passenger and Fitzgerald's poem 'The Wind at Your Door'.
1 May 1980 - R.D. FitzGerald’s 'The Face of the Waters'
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…
1 May 1979 - Review of books by Randolph Bedford, Eric Drayton Davis, Harry F. Chaplin and Robert D. Fitzgerald
Cantrell reviews the following volumes:
Naught to Thirty-three, by Randolph Bedford (Melbourne University Press, 1976).
The Life and Times of Steele Rudd, by…
1 May 1978 - R.D. FitzGerald - A Profile
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…
1 May 1976 - The Poetic Narrative of R.D. FitzGerald’s ‘Between Two Tides’
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…
1 October 1978