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Vivian Smith

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Review of The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism by Katherine Barnes

Some years ago a well known anthologist and critic tried to justify his omission of the work of Christopher Brennan from an anthology of modem…

1 October 2008
Vivian Smith
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
Vivian Smith
An Interview with Vivian Smith

Vivian Smith discusses his life, career and approach to writing poetry.

1 October 1995
Vivian Smith
Review of The Pathos of Distance, The Visitable Past: Images of Europe in Anglo-Australian Literature, Eagle and Emu: German-Australian Writing 1930-1990, An Antipodean Connection: Australian Writers, Artists and Travellers in Tuscany

Whatever else might be said about them, the last ten years have been a stimulating time in the study of Australian writing, nowhere perhaps more…

1 May 1995
Vivian Smith
Review of Henry Kendall: Poetry, Prose and Selected Correspondence ed. Michael Ackland, and Henry Kendall--The Muse of Australia ed. Russell McDougall

Henry Kendall has been one of the Jess neglected of 19th century Australian writers. For all his misfortunes and the wretchedness of some aspects of…

1 October 1993
Vivian Smith
Review of Antipodean Encounters: Australia and the German Literary Imagination 1754-1918 by Alan Corkhill, and German Images in Australian Literature from the 1940s to the 1980s by Irmtraud Petersson

In 1951 the proceedings of the Australian Goethe Society carried a short paper by Nettie Palmer on 'Some Relations between German and Australian Literature'. A…

1 May 1992
Vivian Smith
The Fifty Best Australian Novels: 1933

Provides an account of letters sent to the Age during 1933, in response to a call for recommendations for the Fifty Best Australian Novels.

1 October 1989
Vivian Smith
Review of Wild Man of Letters: The Story of P.R. Stephensen by Craig Munro

Munro clearly states that his approach is chronological and that he has not aimed at 'a psychological or experimental biography'. He is the first to…

1 May 1986
Vivian Smith
Review of L'aube D'une Nation: les écrivains d'Australie de 1788 á 1910 by Maryvonne Nedelijkovic; and Die Rezeption australischer Literatur im deutschen Sprachraum von 1845-1979 by Volker Wolf

Special Australian Literature numbers have been a feature of several overseas journals in recent years. Whether they emanate from Canada or India, France or Italy…

1 May 1984
Vivian Smith
Editors’ Statements [Vivian Smith]

Vivian Smith discusses his work as literary editor of Quadrant.

1 October 1981
Vivian Smith
James McAuley

It must have been in 1953 that I started reading James McAuley's poems His lyrics were appearing in the Bulletin, Meanjin and various newspapers,…

1 May 1977
Vivian Smith
Nettie Palmer: A Checklist of Literary Journalism, 1918-1936

Smith provides a bibliography of Nettie Palmer's literary journalism between 1918 and 1936.

1 October 1973
Vivian Smith
Vance and Nettie Palmer: The Literary Journalism

Vance and Nettie Palmer engaged in literary journalism throughout their careers. They knew that good reviewing in the weeklies and monthlies is—in Frank Kermode's words—'an…

1 October 1973
Vivian Smith
Review of Preoccupations in Australian Poetry by Judith Wright

Judith Wright is one of the most versatile writers Australia has produced. Already recognized as one of the two or three leading Australian poets, she…

1 December 1965