Issues

Interview with Hal Porter
Revaluing Australian Legends: Some Plays by Jack Hibberd
Martin Boyd as ‘Walter Beckett’
‘The Orange Tree’ and the Limitations of Poetry
Review of books by Judith Wright, Peter Quartermaine and Ian F. McLaren
Opening Address, English Conference, Macquarie University
The Lemurian Nineties
Review of *The Eye in the Mandala: Patrick White: A Vision of Man and God* by Peter Beatson and *Patrick White: Voss* by William Walsh
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1977
*The Time Is Not Yet Ripe* and Contemporary Attitudes to Politics
Martin Boyd’s Missing Novels: A Partial Solution
Review of books by Randolph Bedford, Eric Drayton Davis, Harry F. Chaplin and Robert D. Fitzgerald
Old Orders, New Lands: The Earth Spirit in Picnic at Hanging Rock
Review of *Decay and Renewal: Critical Essays on Twentieth Century Writing* by Jack Lindsay and *Nietzsche in Australia: A Literary Inquiry into a Nationalistic Ideology* by Noel Macainsh
The Citizenship of Peter Porter

Volume 8 No. 3

1 May 1978

*New Poetry*
*Aspect*
Concrete Poetry: A Form In Search of Its Selves
Don’o Kim
Rudi Krausmann
Frank Moorhouse
*MOK*
Questionnaire on Magazines
David Foster
Murray Bail
John Forbes
John Tranter
Vicki Viidikas
Eric Beach
Alan Wearne
Tim Thorne
Jennifer Maiden
Living, Sulking and Fighting in the Seventies
Careering Poetry
*Poetry and Prose Broadsheet*
Fiction
Little Magazines 1968-77 : A Selective Checklist
‘…The Wild Assertion of Vitality’
Four Notes on the Practice of Revolution
Questionnaire on Fiction
Questionnaire on Poetry
David Ireland
Peter Carey
What Happened to the Short Story?
A Checklist of New Writing in Australia
A Survey
An Interview with Peter Mathers
Research in Progress in Australian Literature [1977]
*Your Friendly Fascist*
*Etymspheres*
Christine Townend
*Makar*
*Magic Sam*
Thoughts on Some Recent Poetry

Volume 8 No. 2

1 October 1977

Jindyworobaks and Aborigines
Review of *The Literature of Australia* edited by Geoffrey Dutton, and *Patrick White: a General Introduction* by Ingmar Björkstén
The Provincial Muse 1888-1900
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1976
A.G. Stephens: An Internationalist Critic
Review of *Radical Cousins: Nineteenth Century American and Australian Writers* by Joseph Jones and *Contemporary American and Australian Poetry*, edited by Thomas Shapcott
Review of *Marcus Clarke: An Annotated Checklist: 1862-1972* by Samuel Rowe Simmons, edited with additions by L.T. Hergenhan
Short Notices
Miles Franklin - An Unpublished Teenage Novel
Judith Wright’s Linguistic Philosophy – ‘It’s the Word that’s Strange’
James McAuley
The Getting of Wisdom : Not ‘Merry’ at All

Volume 8 No. 1

1 May 1977

Review of *Australiska och Nyzeeländska Författare på Svenska* by Henry Segeström
Review of books by Judith Wright, Douglas Stewart and James McAuley
From Rowcroft to White: Australian Fiction in Sweden
The Dismissal of Chris Brennan from the University of Sydney
New Light on Barbara Baynton
Review of *Henry Handel Richardson* by William D. Elliott, and *Kenneth Slessor* by Graham Burns
An Irish Conflict in *Bring Larks and Heroes*
Correspondence
A Bibliography of Barbara Baynton
Patrick White’s ‘Return to Abyssinia’
Marcus Clarke’s Library
Henry Kingsley - Mounted Policeman?
Review of books by Hal Porter, Catherine Helen Spence, Douglas Stewart and Ric Throssell
The Craftsmanship of Lawson Revisited

Volume 7 No. 4

1 October 1976

Truth beyond the Language Game: The Poetry of Gwen Harwood
R.D. FitzGerald - A Profile
Review of *Native Companions* and *Judith Wright* by A.D. Hope
Review of books by Nancy Keesing, James McAuley and Barry Andrews
Review by Brian Elliott
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature : 1975
*Ralph Rashleigh*: A Convict Dream
The Family Face: Martin Boyd’s Art of Memoir
Leonard Mann: A Profile
Second Thoughts on the Langton Novels : Martin Boyd’s Revisions
*The Literary News*, 1882-1883
Correspondence
Review of *The Directions of Australian Fiction 1920-1974* by D.R. Burns
Review by Terry Sturm
An Early Australian Short Story by Harpur
The Whirligig and Furphy

Volume 7 No. 3

1 May 1976

Myth and the Poetry of A. D. Hope
Review of *Douglas Stewart* by Clement Semmler and *Vance and Nettie Palmer* by Vivian Smith
Hal Porter: A Profile
Research in Progress in Australian Literature [1975]
What Created, What Perceived?: Early Responses to New South Wales
Centre of Fierceness: Francis Webb’s Vision of the Artist
Urban Influence on Australian Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century
Review of *Melbourne or the Bush: Essays on Australian Literature and Society* by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
The Original Nosey Alf
Baylebridge, Nietzsche, Shaw: Some Observations on the ‘New Nationalism’

Volume 7 No. 2

1 October 1975

Review of *Criticism* by Brian Kiernan and *Patrick White* by Alan Lawson
Marcus Clarke and the Theatre
Review of *Australian Culture Elites* by John Docker and *The Australian Experience* edited by W.S. Ransom
Review of *Patrick White as Playwright* by J. R. Dyce
Grant Watson and the Aborigine: A Tragic Voice in an Age of Optimism
Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1974
Price Warung: Some Corrections and Additions
Barry Oakley and the Satiric Mode
Review of *Robert D. FitzGerald* by A. Grove Day
Art Builds on Art: Rosemary Dobson and Thea Proctor
An Interview with Carter Brown
Australian Bards and British Reviewers

Volume 7 No. 1

1 May 1975

Marcus Clarke’s *Chidiock Tichbourne*
Review of *Marjorie Barnard and M. Barnard Eldershaw* by Louise E. Rorabacher
‘Bush’: A Possible English Dialect Origin for an Australian Term
The Design of ‘For the Term of His Natural Life’
Australian Novels in French
*The Battlers*: Kylie Tennant and the Australian Tradition
‘Damned Scamp’: Marcus Clarke or James Erskine Calder?
Patrick White’s First Book
Marcus Clarke: *Long Odds* and the 1873 Melbourne Cup
Review of *Australian Literary Pseudonyms: An Index with Selected New Zealand References* compiled by Bruce Nesbitt and Susan Hadfield
The Structure of Frederic Manning’s War Novel *Her Privates We*
Review of books by Brenda Niall, Harry Heseltine, Mary Lord and R.G. Geering
The Date of Composition of *Ralph Rashleigh*
A.D. Hope’s ‘The Double Looking Glass’: A Reading

Volume 6 No. 4

1 October 1974

Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1973
Is *Geoffry Hamlyn* a Creole Novel?
A Note on Morris West’s First Novel
Rosemary Dobson : The Influence of Art
Review of *Ulysses Bound, Henry Handel Richardson and her Fiction* by Dorothy Green
Review of *Norman Lindsay: The Embattled Olympian* by John Hetherington
The Influence of John Steinbeck’s *The Pastures of Heaven* on Patrick White
Francis Webb’s ‘Sturt and the Vultures’ : A Note on Sources
Alan Seymour
Review of *Adam Lindsay Gordon* by W.H. Wilde; and *Rolf Boldrewood* by Alan Brissendon
Review of *From Deserts the Prophets Come: The Creative Spirits in Australia* by Geoffrey Serle
Francis Webb
Vance Palmer and the Unguarded Awareness
Christina Stead: An Interview

Volume 6 No. 3

1 May 1974

‘Oh, Vaunted Queensland!’: A Literary Interpretation, 1862-69
Research in Progress in Australian Literature [1973]
The ‘Dark’ Element in Hugh McCrae
Review of *A Manifold Voice: Studies in Commonwealth Literature* by William Walsh; and *Literature in Action: Studies in Continental and Commonwealth Society* by M.C. Bradbrook
Review of *An Introduction to the Australian Novel 1830-1930* by Barry Argyle
Marcus Clarke’s Contributions to *Notes and Queries*
Adam Lindsay Gordon: A Small Discovery
Marcus Clarke: ‘Christianity is Dead’
Voyage and Kaleidoscope in George Johnston’s Trilogy
Review of *The Making of Australian Drama: A Historical and Critical Survey from the 1830s to the 1970s* by Leslie Rees
Review of *Clara Morison* by Catherine Helen Spence, edited by Susan Eade; and *Catherine Spence* by Janet Cooper
Dreams and Visions in *The Tree of Man*
Nettie Palmer: A Checklist of Literary Journalism, 1918-1936
Vance and Nettie Palmer: The Literary Journalism

Volume 6 No. 2

1 October 1973