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Dedication: Rupert Brooke.
Contents
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The Death of the Young Godsi"Guard piously their flow'ring memory",
single work
poetry
(p. 9)
Note: Author note: Translated from the French
- Sonnet to Rupert Brookei"Lover of simple things; thy race is run!", single work poetry (p. 10-11)
- Dead Leavesi"Dead leaves and the wind", single work poetry (p. 12)
- The Eyes of Youthi"Oh Eyes of Youth, Oh Splendid Eyes,", single work poetry (p. 13)
- The Market Placei"Lonely I wander through the busy whirl,", single work poetry (p. 14)
- The Calli"The Sea! The Sea! It calls to me!", single work poetry (p. 15-16)
- To-Morrowi"In youth, with eager, flying feet", single work poetry (p. 17)
- The Motheri"Somewhere in France he lies –", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Anzaci"Can mortal paint with sorry stumbling words,", single work poetry (p. 19-20)
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The Heroic Griefi"Woman! Oh thou whose brave and holy name",
single work
poetry
(p. 21)
Note: Author note: Translation from a French War Poem
- The Mothers of Belgiumi"Slow, slow,", single work poetry (p. 22)
- Sursum Cordsai"Why do ye weep", single work poetry (p. 23-24)
- The Sakkeihi"Do you hear the turning, turning, the interminable turning", single work poetry (p. 25-26)
- The Windi"There is a sound of wind among the trees", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Anzacs, Arise!i"Lay by your plough, your pen, take up your sword, Arise!", single work poetry (p. 28)
- Her Crossi"His Cross! His Cross!", single work poetry (p. 29)
- The Zeppelini"Twitching, she lies;", single work poetry (p. 30)
- Dawn!i"Across the sky the winged moon takes flight!", single work poetry (p. 31)
- Reveriei"Have you heard the bell-birds calling, thro' the grey Australian bush,", single work poetry (p. 32)
- Spring, 1915i"'With the falling of the leaves shall there be peace!'", single work poetry (p. 33)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Being Elsewhere : Aesthetics, Identities and Alienation in Peter Austen's Life and Poetry
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 5 2006; (p. 134-151)Buckridge writes, 'The life and work of Peter Austen, an Australian poet and participant in the First World War, exemplify the defamiliarising function of the single instance, and suggest the possibility of unfamiliar, even "strange" ways in which people could live out the conventional role of the "soldierpoet." This paper offers an account of his brief writing career from that perspective.'
Buckridge aims 'to consider Peter Austen's work historically, as the record of an encounter between a certain kind of literary sensibility and the experience of active service. I am interested, in other words, in the process by which he 'wrote his war", in the cultural capital and aesthetic assumptions he brought to the confrontation, and in how these may have enabled him to come to terms with it and survive it. I shall also touch, finally, on the question of how the prolonged assaults on his sensibility changed his personality and his life...'
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Look Down To-day
1945
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Barjai , no. 19 1945; (p. 34-36) -
Digger Poets : Peter Austen
1920
single work
biography
— Appears in: Aussie: The Australian Soldiers Magazine , 16 August vol. 2 no. 18 1920; (p. 18) -
War Poems
1919
single work
review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 7 June 1919; (p. 3)
— Review of The Young Gods 1919 selected work poetry ; Trial and Probation: Poems of the World War 1919 selected work poetry -
The Young Gods
1919
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 7 May vol. 99 no. 2575 1919; (p. 2)
— Review of The Young Gods 1919 selected work poetry
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War Poems
1919
single work
review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 7 June 1919; (p. 3)
— Review of The Young Gods 1919 selected work poetry ; Trial and Probation: Poems of the World War 1919 selected work poetry -
A Satchel of Books
1919
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 27 March vol. 40 no. 2041 1919; (p. 20)
— Review of The Young Gods 1919 selected work poetry -
The Young Gods
1919
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 7 May vol. 99 no. 2575 1919; (p. 2)
— Review of The Young Gods 1919 selected work poetry -
Look Down To-day
1945
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Barjai , no. 19 1945; (p. 34-36) -
Being Elsewhere : Aesthetics, Identities and Alienation in Peter Austen's Life and Poetry
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 5 2006; (p. 134-151)Buckridge writes, 'The life and work of Peter Austen, an Australian poet and participant in the First World War, exemplify the defamiliarising function of the single instance, and suggest the possibility of unfamiliar, even "strange" ways in which people could live out the conventional role of the "soldierpoet." This paper offers an account of his brief writing career from that perspective.'
Buckridge aims 'to consider Peter Austen's work historically, as the record of an encounter between a certain kind of literary sensibility and the experience of active service. I am interested, in other words, in the process by which he 'wrote his war", in the cultural capital and aesthetic assumptions he brought to the confrontation, and in how these may have enabled him to come to terms with it and survive it. I shall also touch, finally, on the question of how the prolonged assaults on his sensibility changed his personality and his life...'
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Digger Poets : Peter Austen
1920
single work
biography
— Appears in: Aussie: The Australian Soldiers Magazine , 16 August vol. 2 no. 18 1920; (p. 18)
