Australian Literature
MY own ignorance of Australian liter- *"" ature is abysmal. Separated though Australia and New Zealand are by one sea, the need to assimilate English literature plus a preoccupation with our own leaves little time to study Australian work. Occasionally we get a thumbnail sketch of the literary scene in Australia but it is seldom enough to lead us further. And this, I think, was the case with Dr. Murray Todd’s "Australian Literature Today," heard over 3YC, which dealt with Meanjin, Southerly, The Bulletin, the enervating effect of belief in free verse techniques, and in general the diminished glory of Australian letters. Some years ago, listening to what must have been a fine review of The Young Cosima, the author's name stuck in my memory until, to my own profit, I came by a copy of another book by Henry Handel Richardson, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. That review bore fruit, and on its basis I suggest that we really have room for a more thorouch-vgoine treatment of Australian
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 11
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172Australian Literature New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 11
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