Kenneth Slessor (Writers and Their Work) - Softcover

Semmler, Clement

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582011949 ISBN 13: 9780582011946

Publisher: Prentice Hall Press, 1966

Synopsis

Kenneth Slessor, born Igor, is by general consent among the foremost of Australian poets and, by the acclaim of some, the best. Australia's most distinguished literary historian, H. M. Green, wrote of his poetic technique that it was not only superior to that of any other Australian poet of his generation but comparable at its best with that of any contemporary in England or the United States

Mr Semmler who writes in appreciation of Slessor is the Deputy General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He is the author of a book of essays and studies, For the Uncanny Man, on James Joyce and others; has written monographs on the Australian balladists A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson and Barcroft Boake in the series

Australian Writers and Their Work and also a full-length biographical study, The Banjo of the Bush, the first yet published, on Paterson. As an editor he has made notable contributions to the appreciation of Australian literature, with such collections and anthologies as Literary Australia, A Frank Hardy Swag, Stories of the Riverina, and Coast to Coast 1965-6 (a biennial collection of Australian short stories). He is at present preparing Twentieth Century Australian Literary Criticism for the Oxford University Press. Mr. Semmler is a principal literary reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald, and was for many years associate editor of Meanjin, Australia's longest-established literary journal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
• Publication date: 1966
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582011949
• ISBN 13: 9780582011946
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 44