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- Blue Horses, sequence poetry (p. 8-25)
- The Blue Horsesi"What loud wave-motioned hooves awaken", single work poetry (p. 9-11)
- Henry the Navigatori"At Sagres, where the stark Iberian chin", single work poetry (p. 12-14)
- The Incarnation of Siriusi"In that age, the great anagram of God", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Choralei"At night the sun walks underneath the waves", single work poetry (p. 16-17)
- Celebration of Lovei"All things announce her coming and her praise:", single work poetry (p. 18-21)
- Philoctetesi"Upon the sounding rock, above the wave,", single work poetry (p. 22-25)
- When Shall the Fairi"When shall the fair", single work poetry (p. 29)
- Monologuei"To speak of love. A tear", single work poetry (p. 30-31)
- Rhyme's Endi"We came from a crooked town my dear", single work poetry (p. 31)
- She Like the Moon Arisesi"She like the moon arises", single work poetry (p. 32)
- At Bungendorei"Now the white-buskined lamb", single work poetry (p. 33)
- Autumni"Heart, it is time. The fruitful summer yields;", James McAuley (translator), single work poetry (p. 34)
- "There the blue-green gums are a fringe of remote disorder" Envoi for a Book of Poemsi"There the blue-green gums have a wild precision, a strict disorder,", single work poetry (p. 35)
- Gnostic Preludei"The light was out; the sky was down;", single work poetry (p. 39)
- The Bee-Hivei"Why should this drone be kept alive?", single work poetry (p. 40)
- Dialoguei"There was a pattering in the rafters, mother,", single work poetry (p. 41)
- The Family of Love : I : Proemi"The world's the thing; Mercator its false prophet;", single work poetry (p. 42)
- The Family of Love : II : Song of Shemi"When our beasts low in their stalls", single work poetry (p. 42-43)
- The Family of Love : III : Plumbi"Nietzsche respected the great god Plumb", single work poetry satire (p. 43)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Poets in Three Countries
single work
review
— Review of Under Aldebaran 1946 selected work poetry -
"By No Stretch . . .a Locus Amoenus"— Traces of Dirt in the Early Poetry of James McAuley
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 1 2020;'Western mythology traditionally offered sparse, negative readings of things related to earth, as a prison-like entity guarded by the god Hades (Cirlot, Grillet). This paper traces motifs of dirt and soil in several early poems by James McAuley (1917-76). “Envoi” (1938), an inland landscape from McAuley’s stay in Bungendore, rural NSW, attributes to the “soil, the season and the shifting airs” the “faint sterility that disheartens and derides.” Similarly, “The Tomb of Heracles” (1947-49) reiterates motifs of aridity and sterility in imagery of dry landscape: “Blind light, dry rock, a tree that does not bear.” Nonetheless, a differentiation occurs in “Envoi,” in introducing the motif of suppressed fertility and “good chance” in the “artesian heart,” in which earth is reluctantly recognised as the eventual, vital water bearer.
'This paper traces the important formative influence of T.S. Eliot, notably “The Waste Land” and Australia’s own agency of modernism the Jindyworobak movement, with its original environmental manifesto (1937) and celebration of Australia’s dry interiors and indigenous values. It traces other, desolate encounters with earth in McAuley’s war-time reading of early Portuguese chronicles of voyage reflected in his explorer poem “Henry the Navigator” (1944)— “These roots of stunted bushes scrabble earth/Like withered birds […].” The poem adverts to later European “discovery” of Australia’s reportedly arid coasts.
'The paper also identifies the return to a more accepting reading of motifs of dry earth-scapes “Harsh, dry, abrasive, spikey, rough” in McAuley’s later poems depicting the Coles Bay nature reserve in eastern Tasmania: “By no stretch [..] a locus amoenus” (Bush Scene”, 1974).' (Publication abstract)
- y James McAuley South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1992 Z90326 1992 single work criticism
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Between Position and Desire : The Love Poetry of James McAuley
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 51 no. 1 1991; (p. 35-54) -
From Heroism to Pietas : The Anti-Modernist's Progress in the Poetry of James McAuley
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 48 no. 3 1989; (p. 597-610)
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Untitled
1946
single work
review
— Appears in: Hermes , no. 2 1946; (p. 66-68)
— Review of Under Aldebaran 1946 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1946
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Quarterly , vol. 18 no. 4 1946; (p. 113-114)
— Review of Under Aldebaran 1946 selected work poetry -
Poets in Three Countries
single work
review
— Review of Under Aldebaran 1946 selected work poetry -
Simplicity and Complication
1947
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 8 no. 3 1947; (p. 170-175)
— Review of Under Aldebaran 1946 selected work poetry ; The Dosser in Springtime 1946 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1947
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 6 no. 1 1947; (p. 55-57)
— Review of Under Aldebaran 1946 selected work poetry -
Australian Poetry : The Age of Affirmation, 1946-71
1977
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Da Slessor a Dransfield : antologia della poesia Australiana moderna : mito societa' individuo 1977;
— Appears in: Statements 1984; (p. 1-28) -
'Under Aldebaran' : Edmund Spenser and the Early James McAuley
1987
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , April/May no. 18 1987; (p. 15-16) -
James McAuley (1917-1976)
Margaret Giordano
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Don Norman
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1984
single work
biography
— Appears in: Tasmanian Literary Landmarks 1984; (p. 191-197) - y James McAuley South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1992 Z90326 1992 single work criticism
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The Heart of James McAuley : Life and Work of the Australian Poet
Sydney
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Wildcat Press
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1980
Z126437
1980
single work
criticism
'The Heart of James McAuley examines the work of the famous poet, editor, critic, and political thinker. It places the poetry in its biographical context from his anarchistic and avant-garde youth to the libertarian conservative and Catholic convert of later years. It takes a new look at the great Ern Malley hoax, his profound essays on the decolonization of New Guinea, his association with such major figures as B.A.Santamaria and Sir John Kerr, his involvement with the Industrial Groups in the ALP and with the DLP, his founding of the magazine Quadrant, and his response to a number of controversies from the CIA scandals to the New Left assaults on the universities. No other biography of McAuley encompasses all the wide-ranging activities of this great poet.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Connor Court ed.)