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Collected Poems 1936–1967 is a collection of poems by Australian writer Douglas Stewart, published by Angus and Robertson in 1967. [1]The collection contains 235 poems, most of which were published in a number of the poet's earlier poetry collections. [2]
Douglas Stewart AO OBE (6 May 1913 – 14 February 1985) was a major twentieth century Australian poet, as well as short story writer, essayist and literary editor. He published 13 collections of poetry, 5 verse plays, including the well-known Fire on the Snow, many short stories and critical essays, and biographies of Norman Lindsay and Kenneth Slessor.
Glencoe is a 1947 narrative poem by Douglas Stewart about the Massacre of Glencoe.In sixteen parts, it ranks among Stewart's best known works. [1] [2]It was published in 1948.
Stewart also wrote a series of poems on the topic under the title Worsley Enchanted. These were published in the Bulletin in 1948 [2] and in a 1952 collection of his poetry. [3] According to one reviewer, the poem, "Though vivid, it does not equal, as poetry the best in this kind in Mr. Stewart's verse dramas."
Exrtracts of the play were published in The Bulletin in 1939. [6] Leslie Rees, the ABC's Drama Editor, read it and encouraged Stewart to turn it into a radio play. [7]Stewart said he wanted to write the play for radio "because I wanted to write a long poem about Scott, and this, short of finding a lunatic talkie director who would make a film with verse, dialogue and commentary, was the only ...
Modern Australian Verse edited by Douglas Stewart, Angus and Robertson, 1964 [16] Silence Into Song : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Clifford O'Brien, Rigby, 1968 [17] A Book of Australian Verse edited by Judith Wright, Oxford University Press, 1968 [18] Judith Wright : Collected Poems, 1942-1970 by Judith Wright, Angus and ...
After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin magazine in 1958 it was reprinted as follows: Australian Poetry 1958 selected by Vincent Buckley, Angus and Robertson, 1958 [5] Socrates and Other Poems by Francis Webb, Angus and Robertson, 1961 [6] Modern Australian Verse edited by Douglas Stewart, Angus and Robertson, 1964 [7]
Reviewing the collection for The Bulletin Douglas Stewart noted the "comparative smallness of output" and "a certain lack of joy, spontaneity and simplicity; and, in consequence, an impression of seriousness and, sometimes, strain." But he did conclude that a number of the poems were "expressing the writer’s own richly feminine genius in the ...