The heart of the matter:Vincent Buckley's Late Winter Child

Authors

  • Lyn Jacobs Flinders University

Keywords:

poetry, poetic sequence, poetics

Abstract

Vincent Buckley was a celebrated poet, teacher, editor, critic, essayist, reviewer, Catholic intellectual, Professor of English at Melbourne University, member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and founder of the Committee for Civil Rights in Ireland. He was also a husband and father. This article argues that while Buckley's writing was  fuelled by political and personal concerns, the songs from the heart in <em>Late Winter Child</em> represent the culmination of a journey to find a poetic language to express his sense of the 'paradisal possibilities of life.'

Author Biography

  • Lyn Jacobs, Flinders University
    Associate Professor Australian Studies/English Retired with full academic status

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Vincent Buckley Special Issue (2010)

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The heart of the matter:Vincent Buckley’s Late Winter Child. (2010). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/10196