|
R. D. Fitzgerald
Robert David FitzGerald III AM OBE (22 February 1902 – 24 May 1987) was an Australian poet. Biography FitzGerald was born in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, a third-generation Australian of Irish extraction, and studied science at the University of Sydney. He left before graduating, however, and followed in the footsteps of both his father and grandfather Robert D. FitzGerald by taking up a post as a surveyor. In the 1930s he travelled to Fiji where he worked the Native Lands Commission, surveying tribal boundaries, an experience important to his poetry. He spent World War II doing engineering surveys in New South Wales and working for the Australian Department of the Interior (from 1939 to 1965). FitzGerald's poetry, together with that of Kenneth Slessor, was an important modernist influence on Australian literature of the late 1920s and 1930s, being at once more serious and more workmanlike than much of the poetry of the period. Jack Lindsay wrote of them: In later li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert D
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonlight Acre
''Moonlight Acre'' (1938) is a collection of poems by Australian poet R. D. Fitzgerald. It won the ALS Gold Medal The Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (ALS Gold Medal) is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for "an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year." From 1928 to 1974 it was awarded by the ... in 1938. Contents * "Moonlight Acre" * "Copernicus" * "The Hidden Bole" * "Essay on Memory" Critical reception On its original publication in Australia a reviewer in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' was rather unstinting in their praise by stating "This slim volume contains work of such a high order that it should go far to establish Mr. FitzGerald as one of the finest contemporary poets writing in English." They went on to state: "Although it avoids the wilful obscurity and recondite allusions of many younger English poets, misled by Eliot and Pound, it can challenge them bravely on their own ground of intellectual sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Male Poets
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Order Of Australia
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader Mohammad Najibullah says that Afghanistan's 1978 Communist revolution is "not reversible," and that any opposition parties will have to align with Communist goals. * January 4 – ** 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route from Washington, D.C. to Boston collides with Conrail engines at Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people. ** Televangelist Oral Roberts announces to his viewers that unless they donate $8 million to his ministry by March 31, God will "call [him] home." * January 15 – Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, is forced into retirement by political conservatives. * January 16 – León Febres Cordero, president of Ecuador, is kidnapped for 11 hours by followers of imprisoned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1902 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's first registered nurse. ** Nathan Stubblefield demonstrates his Mobile phone, wireless telephone device in the U.S. state of Kentucky. * January 8 – A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel (railroad), Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17 people, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains and the banning of steam locomotives in New York City. * January 23 – Hakkōda Mountains incident: A snowstorm in the Hakkōda Mountains of northern Honshu, Empire of Japan, Japan, kills 199 during a military training exercise. * January 30 – The Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed. February * February 12 – The 1st Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance takes place in Washing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Brennan Award
The Christopher Brennan Award (formerly known as the Robert Frost Prize after American writer Robert Frost) is an Australian award given for lifetime achievement in poetry. The award, established in 1973, takes the form of a bronze plaque which is presented to a poet who produces work of "sustained quality and distinction". cultureandrecreation.gov.au. Retrieved 23 February 2019. It was awarded by the Fellowship of Australian Writers and named after the poet Christopher Brennan. The most recent award was made in 2015. Recipients The award has been given posthumously to Francis Webb (poet), Francis Webb, James McAuley and David Campbell (poet), David Campbell.References
|
Grace Leven Prize For Poetry
The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry was an annual poetry award in Australia, given in the name of Grace Leven who died in 1922. It was established by William Baylebridge who "made a provision for an annual poetry prize in memory of 'my benefactress Grace Leven' and for the publication of his own work". Grace was his mother's half-sister.Wilde et al (1994) p. 325 The award is made to "the best volume of poetry published in the preceding twelve months by a writer either Australian-born, or naturalised in Australia and resident in Australia for not less than ten years". It offers only a small monetary prize, but is highly regarded by poets. It was first awarded in 1947, with the recipient being Nan McDonald's ''Pacific Sea''. In 2012 the prize was awarded for the final time. Award winners 2010s * 2012: Joint winners ::: ''Rawshock'' by Toby Fitch ::: ''Autoethnographic'' by Michael Brennan ::: ''The Collected Blue Hills'' by Laurie Duggan ::: ''Jaguar's Dream'' by John Kinsella ::: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ALS Gold Medal
The Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (ALS Gold Medal) is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for "an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year." From 1928 to 1974 it was awarded by the Australian Literature Society, then from 1983 by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, when the two organisations were merged. Award winners 1920s * 1928: Martin Mills (Martin Boyd) – '' The Montforts'' * 1929: Henry Handel Richardson – '' Ultima Thule'' 1930s * 1930: Vance Palmer – '' The Passage'' * 1931: Frank Dalby Davison – '' Man-Shy'' * 1932: Leonard Mann – '' Flesh in Armour'' * 1933: G. B. Lancaster (Edith J. Lyttleton) – '' Pageant'' * 1934: Eleanor Dark – '' Prelude to Christopher'' * 1935: Winifred Birkett – '' Earth's Quality'' * 1936: Eleanor Dark – '' Return to Coolami'' * 1937: Seaforth Mackenzie – '' The Young Desire It'' * 1938: R. D. FitzGerald – '' Moonlight Acre' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wind At Your Door
''The Wind at Your Door'' (1959) is a one-poem volume by Australian poet R. D. Fitzgerald. The poem was originally published in '' The Bulletin'' on 17 December 1958, and later in this 275 copy Talkarra Press limited edition, signed by the author. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1959. The poem is based on the uprising of Irish rebel convicts at Castle Hill, New South Wales in 1804. It concerns two main characters, Martin Mason surgeon, and overseer of the brutal flogging of the poet's namesake, Morris Fitzgerral. Critical reception ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' noted that "...Fitzgerald sees the continuing problem, on both the both national and the individual level, of the Australian identity. On the general level is the problem of the nation adapting to its development from a 'jail-yard'; on the personal level is the problem of individual Australians (in this case the poet himself) adapting to both sides of their ancestry, authoritarianism and re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Between Two Tides
''Between Two Tides'' (1952) is a long narrative poem by Australian poet R. D. Fitzgerald, which included illustrations by Norman Lindsay. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1952. Outline The poem is "drawn from ''An Account of the Natives of the Tongan Islands'' by J. M. Martin (1817)", which "Fitzgerald had worked on intermittently over many years". "In five parts, the poem relates and discusses the life and exploits of Will Mariner, a young sailor on the privateer ''Port au Prince'', which was attacked and burned by Tongan natives in 1806." Reviews A reviewer in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' noted that the "theme of the eternally troubled mind with which man regards his destiny is not too profound to overload a simple narrative. Here is a story-poem which will please those whose palates have never become too sophisticated to reject the flavour of ''Treasure Island'' or Masefield's ''Dauber.''" Awards * 1952 - winner Grace Leven Prize for Poetry See also * 1952 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
