Contents include: INTERPRETATIONS: The literary heritage / H.P. Heseltine p3. The literary heritage reassessed / A.A. Phillips p17. Felons and folk songs / Russel Ward p27. The structure of ‘Such is life’ by Joseph Furphy / John Barnes p47. Henry Lawson as craftsman / A.A. Phillips p63. Steele Rudd and Henry Lawson / A.D. Hope p75. ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahoney’: a reconsideration / F.H. Mares p87. Dubious cartography / Martin Boyd p95. Martin Boyd: a commentary / Kathleen Fitzpatrick p102. Three realists in search of reality / David Martin p109. Mary Gilmore: poet and great Australian / Robert D. Fitzgerald p127. The quest of Judith Wright / T. Inglis Moore p145. Helicon as Jordan / Vincent Buckley p161. The plays of Patrick White / R.F. Brissenden p175. Australian drama since ‘Summer of the seventeenth doll’ / H.G. Kippax p193. The Anzac tradition / K.S. Inglis p205. The meanings of mateship / T. Inglis Moore p223.
A GROUP OF STORIES: Mathieson’s wife / Vance Palmer p235. Down at the dump / Patrick White p247. Going through / John Morrison p273. The island / Peter Cowan p281. My bird / Alan Marshall p303. Wear an albatross for me / Thelma Forshaw p311. The mother / Judah L. Waten p319. Riches of travel / Donald R. Stuart p329. The outsider / E.O. Schlunke p335. Kama / Eric C. Rolls p345. The man who bowled Victor Trumper / Dal Stivens p353.
AN ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE: Chess by the sea / Dorothy Auchterlonie p24. V-P Day, 1945 / Ernest Briggs p389. Lament of the makers / Vincent Buckley p157. In the glass / David Campbell p186. The critics / Nancy Cato p451. To my son / Robert Clark p439. A small elegy for my father / Laurence Collinson p393. Late Autumn / J.M. Couper p93. Hipster, U.S.A. / Alexander Craig p245. Kiss of death / Bruce Dawe p438. Natura incuriosa / James Devaney p420. On the tapestry / Rosemary Dobson p61. Orpheus on the seashore / Patricia Excell p299. Bog and candle / Robert D. Fitzgerald p25. An interlude after Propertius / William Fleming p271. For these are gracious things / Paul L. Grand p402. Youth – manhood – middle age / Rodney Hall p431. The Tantanoola Tiger / Max Harris p269.
‘I am the Captain of my soul’ / Gwen Harwood p232. The glass jar / Gwen Harwood p437. The Isles and the gulls / Bertram Higgins p422. A commination / A.D. Hope p83. Conquistador / A.D. Hope p300. Death on a north Pacific atoll / Flexmore Hudson p464. Words for a child / Margaret Irvin p456. Autumn – a pause before rising / Noel Macainsh p85. The incarnation of Sirius / James McAuley p141. Time’s glass grows dim / Hugh McCrae p376. Three sonnets for Richenda / David Martin p106. Spring in water / Joan Mas p440. Sonnet / Peter Miles p393. In the spirit’s June / T. Inglis Moore p431. Here strike our roots / Ian Mudie p447. Ask me no more / D.C. Muecke p191. To the red lory / John Shaw Neilson p423. Elegiac / Joseph O’Dwyer p389. Ballade of the far away ones / James Picot p356. Variations on a theme of John Keats / James Picot p388. A diplomat / J.R. Rowland p105.Thistle Creek / Thomas W. Shapcott p125. Estranged at midnight / R.A. Simpson p107. Warmth in July: Hobart / Vivian Smith p45. Four-letter words / Douglas Stewart p187. Landfall / Randolph Stow p358. Prayer for the death of the grey bird / Lynne Strahan p73. Radiation victim / Colin Thiele p460. Song / H. Vintner p402. The rainbow birds / Brian Vrepont p124. Lullaby / Chris Wallace-Crabbe p421. Harry / Francis Webb p357. Woman to child / Judith Wright p142. Woman to man / Judith Wright p142. Woman’s song / Judith Wright p143.
PERSONS AND PLACES: Vance Palmer: man of letters / John Barnes p361. H.M. Green: the man and the work / A.D. Hope p373. E. Morris Miller / F.M. Todd p377. A tribute to Hugh McCrae / Robert D. Fitzgerald p381. James Picot: Thailand postscript / William Lester p386. Brian Fitzpatrick: a tribute / W.K. Hancock p391. A view from London Bridge / Noel McLachlan p395. 1914 / Nettie Palmer p405. Ancestors / Vance Palmer p411. Contrasts: Meredith and Marchesi / Katharine Susannah Prichard p425. Two continents, four men / A.R. Chisholm p433.
VARIETY: Battle / Vance Palmer p443. Australian outlook / Rex Ingamells p445. The cultural cringe / A.A. Phillips p448. Confessions of a zombie / A.D. Hope p452. Letter to Tom Collins: demise of the ‘Bulletin’ / Sidney J. Baker p457. Jean-Paul Sartre and the Nobel Prize / Dymphna Cusack p461. The writer in relation to history / Marcel Aurousseau p465. Australia’s cultural pattern / Clement Semmler p469.