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Critical Article by Brian Matthews

Abstract: Matthews finds a unity in the arrangement of stories in While the Billy Boils. The chronological nature of the stories, the use of rumour and the consistent use of time and distance are all elements that support the structure of the…

Tags: Australian, Australian poetry, bush, bush poem, bush poet, bush poetry, Henry Lawson, medieval obsession with death, poem, poet, poetry

Maxwell Mead

The McLaren Vale, South Australia, company Maxwell Wines produce three varieties of Maxwell Mead. Their website explains that although mead was first drunk much earlier than the medieval period, it has a particularly strong association with…

Tags: Anglo-Saxon, Beowulf, beverage, honey wine, honeymoon, king, label, Maxwell Mead, Maxwell Wines, McLaren Vale, mead, poetry, SA, Scandinavia, South Australia, stained glass, sword, Viking.

He Still Wears the Ruff and Doublet

SMH_1954_Sat_27_March_Hugh_McCrae_OBE_Biography_and_Criticism.pdf

This article about Australian lyric poet Hugh Raymond McCrae (1876-1958) is titled â€˜He still wears the Ruff and Doubletâ€™ in response to a claim supposedly made by Kenneth Slessor (quoted in the article) that McCrae was â€˜perpetually…

'Romancing the Medieval' Unit

Level 3 undergraduate unit â€˜Romancing the Medievalâ€™ coordinated by Stephanie Trigg at the University of Melbourne. The unit covers a variety of genres of medieval literature, as well as post-16th century works that re-create or revive…

Troubadour Song

Hobart Gazette Van Dieman's Land Advertiser 1825 Poem.pdf

A poem featured in The Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser, which conforms to lyrical and bardic poetic traditions. It has medieval and classical undertones in both style and language.

Tags: Australian, Australian poem, Australian poetry, bard, bardic, Classical, court, courtly, courtly poetry, lyric, lyric poet, lyrical, lyrical poet, medieval, medieval undertones, poem, poems, poet, poetry, romance, sing, singing, song, Tasmania, troubadour, war, warrior, warriors

Chaucer. [From various sources].

This column from the Colonial Literary Journal in 1844 provides a biography of medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Quoting from an unnamed source, the article names Chaucer alongside Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton as one of the ‘Four Great English…

Tags: biography, Dante Alghieri (c.1265-1321), Early Australian Literary Tastes, Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599), English language, Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400), Hainault, heresy, John Milton (1608â€“1674), John of Gaunt (1340â€“1399), John Wycliffe (d.1384), medieval poet, medieval poetry, poet, poetry, William Shakespeare (1564â€“1616)

‘Jack Cade: A Tribute to the Much-Maligned Patriot (see ‘Henry VI’ Second Part. Act IV. Scene X)’, The Bulletin, 8 December 1894.

Victor Daley was an Irishman who came to Australia as a young man. He wrote romantic verse and was referred to by Vivian Smith as, “one of the most attractive poets of the nineties in Australia” (Vivian Smith, ‘Poetry’, The…

Tags: Alexander Iden, doggerel, Henry VI Part II, Jack Cade, John Bull, Kent, London, poetry, political commentary, rebellion, revolt, roast beef, verse, Victor J. Daley (1858-1905), William Shakespeare (c.1564-1616)

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