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THE MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGY OF
AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
THE MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
EDITED BY
KEN GOODWIN AND ALAN LAWSON UNIVERSilY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF
BRUCE BENNETT • GERRY BOSTOCK • SNEJA GUNEW
BRIAN KIERNAN • SUSAN McKERNAN • THOMAS SHAPCOTT
KEN STEWART • JENNIFER STRAUSS e ELIZABETH WEBBY
M MACMILLAN EDUCATION
Copyright© this collection Ken Goodwin & Alan Lawson 1990; sectional introductions ascribed authors
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1. Australian literature. I. Goodwin, K. L. (Kenneth Leslie), 1934- . II. Lawson, Alan, 1948- . III. Bennett, Bruce, 1941- IV. Title: Anthology of Australian literature.
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CONTENTS
AcKNOWLEDGEMENTS xix
INTRODUCTION 1 Alternative Ways of Seeing 4 Chronological List of Items 6
A Place and People 1 James Cook, from An Account of a Round Voyage of the Endeavour
in the Year MDCCLXX along the East Coast of Australia compiled by D. Warrington Evans (Brisbane: W. R. Smith & Paterson, 1969) 484-5, 492-4 (20, 28 April1770) 16
2 Mary Gilmore, 'Australia' Selected Verse (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1948) 132-3 17
3 Henry Kingsley, The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, from Chapter 18; facsimile reproduction of Chapman & Hall1877 edition, in Henry Kingsley, ed. J. S.D. Mellick (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1982) 135-40 18
4 Judith Wright, 'For New England' Collected Poems 1941-1970 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971) 22-3 22
5 Frederick (Friedrich) Gerstaecker, The Two Convicts, from Chapter 4 (London: Routledge, 1857) 38-9 23
6 Henry Lawson, 'Crime in the Bush' A Camp-fire Yarn: Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900, ed. Leonard Cronin (Sydney: Lansdowne, 1984) 572-4 24
7 'Steele Rudd' (Arthur Hoey Davis), 'Cranky Jack' On Our Selection, foreword Cecil Hadgraft (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1987) 38-47 28
8 Vance Palmer, 'The Hermit' The World of Men (London: Euston Press, 1915) 1-8 33
9 Catherine Helen Spence, Clara Morison, from Volume 2, Chapter 9 Catherine Helen Spence, ed. Helen Thomson, Portable Australian Authors (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1987) 277-80 36
10 Caroline Atkinson, Gowanda, the Veteran's Grant: An Australian Story, from Chapter 5 (Sydney: J. R. Clarke, 1859) 38-40 39
11 Patrick White, Voss, from Chapter 6 (New York: Viking, 1957) 120-2, 123-5 41
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12 Robin Boyd, 'Pioneers and Arboraphobes' from The Australian Ugliness (Melbourne: Cheshire, 1960) 74-7 44
13 George Johnston, My Brother jack, from Chapter 13 (London: Collins, 1964) 283-90 46
14 Thomas Shapcott, from 'The Trees: A Convict Monologue' I, III Begin with Walking, Paperback Poets 11 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1972) 43-4 51
15 Charles Harpur, 'A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest' The Poetical Works, ed. Elizabeth Perkins (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1984) 199-200 52
16 Henry Kendall, 'Bell-Birds' Leaves from Australian Forests: Poetical Works of Henry Kendall (Hawthorn, Victoria: Lloyd O'Neil, 1970) 10-11 53
17 Judith Wright, 'Eyes' Phantom Dwelling (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1985) 42 54
18 Vincent Buckley, from 'Golden Builders', I Selected Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1982) 111-12 54
19 Murray Bail, 'Home Ownership' Quadrant 24 Uanuary-February 1980) 95-7 55
20 Bruce Dawe, 'Pleasant Sunday Afternoon' Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954-1987, third edition (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1988) 162 60
21 Barry Humphries, 'Days of the Week' The Humour of Barry Humphries, selected John Allen (Sydney: Currency Press, 1984) 83-6 61
22 Patrick White, 'Miss Slattery and her Demon Lover' The Burnt Ones (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964) 206-23 63
B Living in Aboriginal Australia 75 1 From The Djanggawul Song Cycle, translated Ronald M. Berndt
Djanggawul: An Aboriginal Religious Cult of North-eastern Arnhem Land (Melbourne: Cheshire, 1952) Songs 1 and 2, pp. 63-4 80
2 From The Goulburn Island Cycle, translated Ronald M. Berndt Love Songs of Arnhem Land (Melbourne: Nelson, 1976) Songs 3 and 4, pp. 52-3 81
3 From A Wonguri-Mandjigai Song Cycle of the Moon-bone, translated Ronald M. Berndt Oceania 19.1 (1948) 16-50, Song 2 82
4 Jack Davis, from Kullark (Home), Scene 2 Kullark!The Dreamers (Sydney: Currency Press, 1982) 12 83
5 G. F. Moore, 'Yagan' from Diary ofTen Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia (1884), reprinted in Wide Domain: Western Australian Themes and Images, ed. Bruce Bennett and William Grono (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1979) 44-5 84
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6 Dick Roughsey, 'Faces of White Pipe-day' from Moon and Rainbow: The Autobiography of an Aboriginal (Adelaide: Rigby, 1977) 13-15 85
7 Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, from Chapter 3 Sydney's First Four Years, being a reprint of A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port jackson, introduction and annotations L. F. Fitzhardinge (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1961) 139-43 86
8 Henry Kendall, 'The Last of His Tribe' Poems (Melbourne: George Robertson, 1886) 90-1 90
9 Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), 'We are Going' My People, second edition (Milton, Queensland: Jacaranda, 1981) 78 91
10 Mudrooroo Narogin (Colin Johnson), from Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1983) 28-33 92
11 Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), 'No More Boomerang' My People, second edition (Milton, Queensland: Jacaranda, 1981) 32-3 95
12 Sally Morgan, from 'Daisy Corunna's Story' My Place (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987) 325-32 96
B Hazel McKellar, from Matya-Mundu: A History of the Aboriginal People of South West Queensland ed. Thorn Blake (Cunnamulla: Cunnamulla Australian Native Welfare Association, 1984) 76-9 103
14 Roland Robinson, 'Bees' Altjeringa and Other Aboriginal Poems (Sydney: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1970) 28 105
15 Katharine Susannah Prichard, 'Marlene' Happiness: Selected Short Stories (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1967) 110-20 105
16 Jack Davis, from No Sugar, 2.5, 2.6 (Sydney: Currency Press, 1986) 63-8 112
17 Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow My Country, from Chapter 1 (Sydney: Collins, 1975) 9-13 116
18 Archie Weller, 'Johnny Blue' Going Home (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986) 38-43 120
19 Gerry Bostock, from Here Comes the Nigger, 1.2 Meanjin 36.4 (December 1977) 480-7 124
20 Kevin Gilbert, 'Mister Man' People ARE Legends (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1978)34-5 129
21 Jack Davis, 'John Pat' Barungin, Programme for world premiere, 10 February 1988, The Playhouse, Perth 130
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22 Mudrooroo Narogin (Colin Johnson), 'Song Twenty-Three' The Song-Circle of Jacky and Selected Poems (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1986) 35-6 131
23 Mudrooroo Narogin (Colin Johnson), 'Song Thirty' The Song-Circle of jacky and Selected Poems (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1986) 43 132
C Convictism 133 1 Thomas Keneally, The Playmaker, from Chapter 10: 'Wryneck Day'
(Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987) 83-8 138
2 Hal Porter, The Tilted Cross, from Chapter 1 (Adelaide: Rigby/Seal Books, 1971) 9-10 141
3 R. D. FitzGerald, 'The Wind at Your Door' Forty Years' Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1965) 236-41 142
4 Anon, 'Moreton Bay' The Queensland Centenary Pocket Songbook, collected and arranged by the Federation of Bush Music Groups, Brisbane [John Manifold] (Sydney: Edwards & Shaw, 1959) 9 145
5 Marcus Clarke, His Natural Life, from Book 4, Chapter 7: 'Breaking a Man's Spirit'; facsimile reproduction of 1885 edition in Marcus Clarke, ed. Michael Wilding (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1976) 405-9 146
6 'Tasma' Oessie Couvreur), 'An Old-time Episode in Tasmania' from Coo-ee, ed. Mrs A. Patchett Martin (1891); reprinted in The Australian Short Story before Lawson, ed. Cecil Hadgraft (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986) 208-20 149
7 Bruce Dawe, 'A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love' Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954-1987, third edition (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1988) 74 158
8 David Williamson, The Removalists, from Act 2 in Collected Plays 1 (Sydney: Currency Press, 1986) 116-23 159
9 David Ireland, from The Unknown Industrial Prisoner (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971) 8-13 164
D The Migrant Experience 168 1 Bernard O'Dowd, 'The Southern Call'
Australia Today, special number of The Australasian Traveller, 1 November 1913: 3 174
2 Christopher Brennan, 'Each day I see the long ships coming into port' Poems [1913 ], facsimile edition, introduction G. A. Wilkes (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1972) np 175
3 An Anti-Chinese Public Meeting The Age (Melbourne) 16 April1855; reprinted in A Documentary History of Australia 2 (1841-1874), ed. Frank Crowley (Melbourne: Nelson, 1980) 311-12 176
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4 Faith Bandler, Wacvie, from Chapter 4 (Adelaide: Rigby, 1977) 43-50 177
5 Paul Wenz, 'Advice to New Chums' from Diary of a New Chum (Melbourne: Book Lover's Library, 1908) 63-4 181
6 Judah Waten, 'Making a Living' from Alien Son (Angus & Robertson, 1952) 156-67 181
7 Peter Skrzynecki, 'Feliks Skrzynecki' Immigrant Chronicle (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1975) 2-3 187
8 Silvana Gardner, 'Old Girl' Children of the Dragon (Milton, Queensland: Jacaranda, 1985) 18 189
9 Lily Brett, 'Our House' The Auschwitz Poems (Brunswick: Scribe, 1986) 111-12 189
10 David Martin, 'Letter to a Friend in Israel' Australian Poetry 1964, selected Randolph Stow (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1964) 12-13 191
11 Beverley Farmer, 'Melpo' Milk (Fitzroy, Victoria: McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1983) 15-27 192
12 Hal Porter, 'House-Girl' Selected Stories (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971) 60-8 200
13 Ee Tiang Hong, 'Coming To' Westerly 31 (1986) 56 206
14 Ania Walwicz, 'Wogs' Mattoid 13 (?1982) 16-17 207
15 Rosa Cappiello, from Oh Lucky Country translated and introduced by Gaetano Rando (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1984) 61-9 208
E Cultural Intersections 1 David Malouf, from An Imaginary Life
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1978) 25-33
2 Richard Howitt, 'To the Daisy'
217
213
in Bards in the Wilderness: Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920, ed. Brian Elliott and Adrian Mitchell (Melbourne: Nelson, 1970) 47-8 221
3 Rex Ingamells, 'The Word "Jindyworobak"' in Conditional Culture (Adelaide: F. W. Preece, 1938) 4-5 222
4 Rex Ingamells, 'Moorawathimeering' in The Jindyworobaks, ed. Brian Elliott (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1979) 11 223
5 Roland Robinson, from 'Deep Well 10': 'I had no human speech' Selected Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971) 22-3 223
6 Giin Gencer, 'Trees II', Outrider 2.1 (1985) 69 224
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7 Antigone Kefala, 'Memory (ii)' The Alien (St Lucia: Makar, 1973) 18 225
8 Dimitris Tsaloumas, 'Seventh Poem' from 'A Rhapsody of Old Men' The Observatory: Selected Poems, second edition, translated Philip Grundy (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1984) 101-3; this translation, Margaret Carroll 225
9 II 0 (Peter Oustabasidis), 'Schizophrenia' R, No 3 (?1980) 226
10 Louis Nowra, from The Golden Age, Scene 11 (Paddington, NSW: Currency Press, 1985) 27-31 227
11 Thomas Shapcott, from The White Stag of Exile (London: Allen Lane, 1984) 53-6 232
12 Randolph Stow, from Visitants (London: Seeker & Warburg, 1979) 153-8 234
F The Vision Splendid 1 Douglas Stewart, 'Terra Australis'
Selected Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1973) 105-8 244
2 R. D. FitzGerald, 'Quayside Meditation' Forty Years' Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson/Sirius Books, 1966) 224-6 246
3 Anonymous, 'Botany Bay' From the Ballads to Brennan, ed. T. Inglis Moore (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1964) 4 247
4 Jean Curlewis, from 'Sydney Surfing' Sydney Surfing by Jean Curlewis and Harold Cazneaux (Sydney: Art in Australia, 1929) np 248
5 Moya Costello, 'An Imaginary Conversation about Brian "Squizzy" Taylor'
238
Frictions: An Anthology of Fiction by Women, ed. Anna Gibbs and Alison Tilson (North Carlton, Victoria: Sybylla Cn-onerative Press, 1982) 22-3 250
6 Anonymous, 'The Wild Colonial Boy' The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads, ed. Russel Ward (Ringwood: Penguin, 1964) 74-5 251
7 John Farrell, from 'Australia' My Sundowner and Other Poems, ed. Bertram Stevens (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1904) 2, 4-5 251
8 Henry Kingsley, The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, from Chapter 36, facsimile reproduction of Chapman & Hall 1877 edition, in Henry Kingsley, ed.]. S. D. Mellick (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1982) 321-5 253
9 Mary Hannay Foott, 'Where the Pelican Builds' Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems (Brisbane: Gordon & Gotth,1885)5 256
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10 Adam Lindsay Gordon, 'The Sick Stockrider' Poems (Melbourne: A. H. Massina, 1894) 151-4 257
11 Henry Lawson, 'The Old Bark School' The Essential Henry Lawson, ed. Brian Kiernan (Melbourne: Currey O'Neil, 1982) 159-60 259
12 A. B. ('Banjo') Paterson, 'Clancy of the Overflow' The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1895) 20-2 260
13 Norman Lindsay, from The Magic Pudding (Ringwood: Penguin, 1972) 48-62 261
14 Lennie Lower, 'Where the Cooler Bars Grow' The Best of Lennie Lower, selected by Cyril Pearl and Wep (Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1963) 3-5 264
15 G. H. Gibson ('lronbark'), 'On the Prevalence of "Bill" in Australian Literature' The Bulletin Book of Humorous Verses and Recitations, ed. Bertram Stevens (Sydney: NSW Bookstall Co, 1920) 86-8 266
16 Frank Hardy, 'The Great Australian Larrikin' The Yarns of Billy Borker (Sydney: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1965) 82-6 267
17 Ian Mudie, 'They'll Tell You About Me' Selected Poems 1934-1974 (Melbourne: Nelson, 1976) 32-4 269
18 Francis Webb, from 'Eyre All Alone' Collected Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1969) 181, 184, 186, 187, 191-2, Sections 1, 5, 8, 10, 14 271
19 Jackey Jackey, 'The Death of Kennedy' Sydney Morning Herald, 6 March 1849, reprinted in A Documentary History of Australia 2 (1841-1874), ed. Frank Crowley (Melbourne: Nelson, 1980) 148-9 274
20 Randolph Stow, 'The Singing Bones' A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems of Randolph Stow (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1969) 52 275
21 'Henry Handel Richardson' (Ethel Florence Robertson), from The Fortunes of.Richard Mahony, Vol. 1, Part 2, Chapter 1 (London: Heinemann, 1930) 96-104 276
22 Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, from Chapter 1 (Melbourne: Nelson, 1974) 2-6 282
23 Ray Lawler, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, from Act 1, Scene 1 The Doll Trilogy (Woollahra: Currency Press, 1978) 224-9 284
24 Frank Dalby Davison, from The Wells of Beersheba: A Light Horse Legend (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1933) 66-77 288
25 Bruce Dawe, 'Homecoming' Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954-1987, third edition (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1988) 92 291
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G Mapping and Naming 292
1 David Malouf, 'A First Place: The Mapping of a World', The fourteenth Herbert Blaicklock Memorial Lecture, delivered 26 September 1984, reprinted Southerly 45.1 (1985): 3-10 298
2 William Dampier, from Dampier's Voyages (1688) Vol. 1, ed. John Masefield (London: E. Grant Richards, 1906) 452-5 303
3 Ania Walwicz, 'Australia' Island in the Sun: An Anthology of Recent Australian Prose, 2, ed. Damien White and Anna Couani (Glebe, NSW: Sea Cruise Books, 1981) 90-1 305
4 Anna Couani, 'Remember to Forget' Were All Women Sex-mad? and Other Stories (Melbourne: Rigmarole Books, 1982) 29-33 306
5 James McAuley, 'Terra Australis' Collected Poems 1936-1970 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971) 16 309
6 Michael Dransfield, from 'Geography', III The Inspector of Tides (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, Paperback Poets 8, 1972) 5 310
7 Bernard O'Dowd, 'Australia' The Poems of Bernard O'Dowd, introduced by Walter Murdoch (Melbourne: Lothian, 1941) 35 310
8 A. D. Hope, 'Australia' Collected Poems 1930-1970 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1972) 13 311
9 W. C. Wentworth, from 'Australasia' facsimile reproduction of London: Shackell and Arrowsmith, 1823 edition, with introduction by G. A. Wilkes (Sydney: Sydney University Press) 1-2, 5-6, 20-22 312
10 Barron Field, 'On Reading the Controversy between Lord Byron and MrBowles' Bards in the Wilderness: Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920, ed. Brian Elliott and Adrian Mitchell (Melbourne: Nelson, 1970) 18-19 314
11 Peter Porter, 'On First Looking into Chapman's Hesiod' Collected Poems (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983) 210-12 315
12 John Dunmore Lang, 'Colonial Nomenclature' Bards in the Wilderness: Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920, ed. Brian Elliott and Adrian Mitchell (Melbourne: Nelson, 1970) 29 316
13 A. D. Hope, 'Country Places' Antechinus: Poems 1975-1980 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1981) 8-9 317
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14 Charles Harpur, from 'The Creek of the Four Graves' The Poetical Works, ed. Elizabeth Perkins (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1984) 161-72 (with some omissions) 319
15 Judith Wright, 'The Cycads' Collected Poems 1942-1970 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971) 41-2 325
16 John Shaw Neilson, 'The Poor, Poor Country' Collected Poems of john Shaw Neilson (Melbourne: Lothian, 1934) 160-61 326
17 Eve Langley, 'Native-Born' Australian Poetry 1941, selected Douglas Stewart (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1941) 29-30 326
18 Les A. Murray, 'Second Essay on Interest: The Emu' The People's Otherworld (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1983) 48-9 327
19 Les A. Murray, 'The Quality of Sprawl' The People's Otherworld (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1983) 28-9 329
20 James McAuley, 'Envoi' Collected Poems 1936-1970 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971) 6 330
H Cultural Politics 331 1 Marcus Clarke, from 'The Future Australian Race'
A Marcus Clarke Reader, ed. Bill Wannan (London: Angus & Robertson, 1964) 26-30 338
2 P. R. Stephensen, 'Colony or Nation' from The Foundations of Culture in Australia: An Essay towards National Self Respect (Gordon: W. j. Miles, 1936) 18-19 341
3 Brian Penton, from Think-Or Be Damned (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1943) 40-6 342
4 Walter Murdoch, from Introduction to The Poems of Bernard O'Dowd (Melbourne: Lothian, 1941) vi-vii 344
5 Henry Kendall, 'Brunton Stephens' Poetry' The Sydney Mail, 3 July 1880: 6 345
6 Arthur Patchett Martin, from 'Concerning Australian Poets' Australian Poets 1788-1888, ed. Douglas Sladen (London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1888) xliii-xliv 347
7 A. A. Phillips, from 'The Cultural Cringe' The Australian Tradition: Studies in a Colonial Culture (Melbourne: Cheshire-Lansdowne, 1966) 112-14, 116-17 348
8 Judith Wright, 'Australia's Double Aspect' Preoccupations in Australian Poetry (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1965) xi-xxii 351
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9 Louisa Lawson ('Dora Falconer'), 'About Ourselves' Editorial, The Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women 1.1 (15 May 1888): 3-4 359
10 Drusilla Modjeska, 'The Emergence of Women Writers since 1975', Australian Feminist Studies 4 (1987): 115-22 360
11 Nettie Palmer, from Fourteen Years: Extracts from a Private journal 1925-1939 (Melbourne: Meanjin Press, 1948) 174-8 (26 July 1935) 368
12 Nettie Palmer, from Fourteen Years (Melbourne: Meanjin Press, 1948) 56-7 (9 December 1929) 368
13 A. B. ('Banjo') Paterson, 'Sydney in the Seventies' from Song of the Pen, Vol. 2 of Complete Works 1901-1941, collected Rosamund Campbell and Phillipa Harvie (Sydney: Lansdowne Press, 1983) 572-4 369
14 Henry Lawson, Letter to Lord Beauchamp (19 January 1900) Letters 1890-1922, ed. Colin Roderick (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1970) 112-14 372
15 ·Patrick White, from 'The Prodigal Son' Australian Letters 1.3 (April 1958): 37-40 374
I The Writing Process 377 1 Rosemary Dobson, 'Oracles for a Childhood Journey'
Selected Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1973) 125-6 383
2 Paul Pfeiffer, 'A.t the Window' The ]indyworobaks, ed. Brian Elliott (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1979) 154; appeared originally in]indyworobak Anthology, ed. Rex Ingamells (Adelaide: F. W. Preece, 1939) 47 383
3 'Ern Malley', 'Diirer: Innsbruck, 1495' The Orange Tree: South Australian Poetry to the Present Day, ed. K.F. Pearson and Christine Churches (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1986) 80 384
4 Kenneth Slessor, 'Nuremberg' Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson/Sirius Books, 1962) 3 384
5 John Tranter, 'Lufthansa' Under Berlin: New Poems 1988 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1988) 46 385
6 Dimitris Tsaloumas, 'The Journey' The Book of Epigrams, translated Philip Grundy (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985) 203 386
7 A. D. Hope, 'Pyramis or The House of Ascent' Collected Poems 1930-1970 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1972) 67-8 386
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8 Gwen Harwood, ' "Thought is Surrounded by a Halo" ' Selected Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1975) 108 387
9 Robert Adamson, 'Towards Abstraction/Possibly a Gull's Wing' Selected Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1977) 38-9 387
10 Finola Moorhead, 'The Landscape of the Egg', 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 Difference: Writing by Women, ed. Susan Hawthorne (Waterloo, NSW: Waterloo Press, 1985) 4-7 388
11 Sylvia Kantaris, 'The Tenth Muse' The Tenth Muse (Cornwall: Menhir Press, 1986) 9 390
12 Marion Campbell, from Lines of Flight (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1985) 228-30 391
13 Dal Stivens, 'The Gentle Basilisk' Selected Stories 1936-1968 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1969) 134-8 393
14 Elizabeth Jolley, 'Woman in a Lampshade' Woman in a Lampshade (Ringwood: Penguin, 1983) 137-49 396
15 Peter Carey, 'The Last Days of a Famous Mime' War Crimes (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1979) 50-6 404
16 Michael Wilding, 'The Words She Types' The Man of Slow Feeling (Ringwood, Penguin, 1985) 168-70 407
J Realism and Romance 1 Frederick Sinnett, from 'The Fiction Fields of Australia'
The journal of Australasia 1 (1856}: 99-105,199-208 415
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2 'Rolf Boldrewood' (Thomas Alexander Browne), from Robbery Under Arms, Chapter 1 facsimile reproduction of 1893 edition, in Rolf Boldrewood, ed. Alan Brissenden (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1979) 1-8 418
3 'Price Warung' (William Astley), 'How Muster-Master Stoneman Earned His Breakfast' Tales of the Convict System: Selected Stories of Price Wartmg, ed. B. G. Andrews (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1975) 14-21 424
4 Stefan von Kotze, from 'Journey from Cooktown to Maytown' Australian Sketches (Melbourne: Pan Publishers, 1945) 13-16, translated by L. L. Politzer from 1903 version which itself was a translation from Kotze's English originals in the Australian press 429
5 Henry Lawson, 'In a Dry Season' The Essential Henry Lawson, ed. Brian Kiernan (Melbourne: Currey O'Neil, [1982]) 102-3 432
6 Henry Lawson, 'The Union Buries Its Dead' The Essential Henry Lawson, ed. Brian Kiernan (Melbourne: Currey O'Neil, [1982]) 104-6 434
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7 A. B. ('Banjo') Paterson, 'An Answer to Various Bards' The Collected Verse of A. B. Paterson (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1921) 273-6 437
8 A. G. Stephens, from 'One Realist and Another' A. G. Stephens: Selected Writings, ed. Leon Cantrell (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1978) 198-9 (The Bulletin, 14 February 1903) 439
9 Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, from Chapter 22: 'Sweet Seventeen' (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1979) 134-7 440
10 Joseph Furphy, from The Buln-Buln and the Brolga (Adelaide: Rigby, 1971) 68-75, 77-9 442
11 Louis Stone, Jonah, from Chapter 3: 'Cardigan Street at Home' (London; Methuen, 1911) 23-31 448
12 John Morrison, 'The Nightshift' North Wind (Ringwood: Penguin, 1981) 200-7 453
13 Eve Langley, The Pea Pickers, from Part 1: 'For the Best! For the Best!' (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1942) 36-42 458
14 Christopher Brennan, 'The yellow gas is fired from street to street' Poems [1913], facsimile edition, introduced by G. A. Wilkes (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1972) np 462
K Person to Person 1 Dick Roughsey, 'Gidegal the Moon-man' 463
Moon and Rainbow: The Autobiography of an Aboriginal (Adelaide: Rigby, 1977) 82-5 468
2 Rosa Praed, Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: A Story of Australian Life (1915), from Book 2 Chapter 3 introduction by Pam Gilbert (London: Pandora, 1987) 103-6 470
3 Ada Cambridge, 'The Physical Conscience' Unspoken Thoughts [anon.] (London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, 1887) 65 473
4 Ada Cambridge, 'An Answer' Unspoken Thoughts [anon.] (London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, 1887) 142 473
5 Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), 'Gifts' My People, second edition (Milton, Queensland: Jacaranda, 1981) 39 474
6 Lesbia Harford, 'In the Public Library' The Poems of Lesbia Harford, ed. Drusilla Modjeska and Marjorie Pizer (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1985) 44-5 474
7 Jennifer Maiden, 'Hypothesis' The New Australian Poetry, ed. John Tranter (St Lucia: Makar Press, 1979) 132 475
8 Eve Langley, 'The Celtic Guest' Australian Poetry 1942, selected Robert D. FitzGerald (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1942) 76-7 476
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9 Barbara Baynton, 'The Chosen Vessel' Barbara Baynton, ed. Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1980) 81-8 477
10 Ethel Anderson, 'The Love-nest; or, Which Sin Is That?' At Pa"amatta (Melbourne: Cheshire, 1956) 115-28 481
11 Christina Stead, 'A Little Demon' Ocean of Story, ed. R. G. Geering (Ringwood: Viking, 1985) 40-50 492
12 Kate Grenville, 'The Space Between' Bearded Ladies (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1984) 1-8 497
13 Jessica Anderson, from Tirra Li"a by the River (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1978; Ringwood: Penguin, 1980) 36-9 501
14 Frank Moorhouse, 'From a Bush Log Book: Going into the Heartlands with the Wrong Person at Christmas' Mean;in 40.2 (1981}: 152-60 504
15 Helen Garner, 'Civilization and its Discontents' Postcards from Surfers (Fitzroy, Victoria: McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1985)93-101 510
16 James McAuley, 'Because' Collected Poems 1936-1970 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1970) 200-1 515
17 Judith Wright, 'Woman to Man' Collected Poems 1942-1970 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971) 29 516
18 Vincent Buckley, 'Standing, naked, feet apart' Late Winter Child (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1979) 34-5 (Poem 25) 517
19 Andrew Taylor, 'Developing a Wife' Selected Poems 1960-1980 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1981) 82 518
20 David Malouf, from 'The Crab Feast' 5, 6 First Things Last (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1980) 31-3 519
21 Gwen Harwood, 'Carnal Knowledge I' Selected Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1975) 100 521
22 Kenneth Mackenzie, 'Shall then another ... ' The Poems of Kenneth Mackenzie (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1972) 10-11 521
23 A. D. Hope, from 'The Planctus', 9: Epigraph Collected Poems 1930-1970 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1972) 219 523
24 Christopher Brennan, 'She is the night' Poems [1913], facsimile edition, introduction by G. A. Wilkes (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1972) np 523
25 Dorothy Hewett, 'Grave Fairytale' Rapunzel in Suburbia (Sydney: New Poetry, 1975) 90-1 524
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L Writing the Self 1 John Shaw Neilson, 'The Orange Tree'
Collected Poems of john Shaw Neilson (Melbourne: Lothian, 1934) 100-1 530
2 Ivan Southall, from josh, Chapter 27 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971) 126-9 531
3 Glenda Adams, 'A Snake Down Under' The Hottest Night of the Century (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1979)31-3 533
4 Olga Masters, 'A Good Marriage' The Home Girls (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1982) 165-74 535
5 'Henry Handel Richardson' (Ethel Florence Robertson) 'Three in a Row' The Adventures of Cuffy Mahony and Other Stories (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1979) 45-53 542
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6 Christina Stead, from For Love Alone, Chapter 5: 'It was High Tide at Nine-thirty' (London: Peter Davies, 1945) 50-8 548
7 Lesbia Harford, 'Periodicity' The Poems of Lesbia Harford, ed. Drusilla Modjeska and Marjorie Pizer (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1985) 75-6 554
8 C. J. Koch, from The Boys in the Island, Chapter 10: 'The Lost Child', second edition (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1974) 148-51 555
9 Gwen Harwood, 'Dialogue' The Lion's Bride (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1981) 72-3 557
10 Les A. Murray, 'The Steel' The People's Otherworld (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1983) 32-6 558
11 Rodney Hall, 'Mrs Macintosh' Selected Poems (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1975) 145-6 562
12 Thomas Shapcott, 'The Elegy Fires' Welcome!: Poems (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1983) 61-2 563
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 565 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE oF AusTRALIAN LITERARY HISTORY 573 INDEX 623
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