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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

Early English Portraiture

In this Western Mail article from 1930, the author begins by providing a somewhat negative review of Thomas Hoccleve’s poem, “The Regiment of Princes”. Asserting that the poem “looks better than it reads”, the author…

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…

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.

Medieval in the Modern World

A second and third year undergraduate unit taught at The University of Western Australia. The unit was created by Andrew Lynch and features novels, poetry and film from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries that reinterpreted medieval…

Our Mistress and our Queen, poem by Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement, protests against what he sees as the forced allegiance to the monarchy and the bloodshed of war in the name of the monarch.

Tags: Australian, Australian Nationalism Movement, Australian poet, Australian poetry, bush, bush poem, bush poet, bush poetry, estates satire, Henry Lawson, Monarchy satire, nationalism, poem, poet, poetry, satire

Queen Hilda of Virland, poem by Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement, wrote this poem in 1910 (MS). The meaning is unclear but Lawson writes of a mythical kingdom of Virland. It could be an allegory of…

Tags: Australian, Australian Nationalism, Australian Nationalism Movement, Australian poetry, bush, bush poem, bush poet, bush poetry, Henry Lawson, Jules Verne, nationalism, poem, poet, poetry, Queen Hilda of Virland

Sex, Power, and Chivalry â€“ Medieval to Modern Literature

An undergraduate unit taught by Louise Dâ€™Arcens at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales. The unit begins with literature from the medieval period, including texts by Malory, Marie de France, the Gawain poet and Troubadours,…

Tags: Alfred Tennyson, cinema, Clint Eastwood, fiction, film, literature, Louise Dâ€™Arcens, Miguel de Cervantes, New South Wales, NSW, poetry, universities, university, University of Wollongong, William Morris, Wollongong

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