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Issue Details: First known date: 1919... 1919 The Young Gods
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Notes

  • Dedication: Rupert Brooke.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Tyrrell's , 1919 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Death of the Young Godsi"Guard piously their flow'ring memory", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 9)
Note: Author note: Translated from the French
Sonnet to Rupert Brookei"Lover of simple things; thy race is run!", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 10-11)
Dead Leavesi"Dead leaves and the wind", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 12)
The Eyes of Youthi"Oh Eyes of Youth, Oh Splendid Eyes,", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 13)
The Market Placei"Lonely I wander through the busy whirl,", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 14)
The Calli"The Sea! The Sea! It calls to me!", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 15-16)
To-Morrowi"In youth, with eager, flying feet", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 17)
The Motheri"Somewhere in France he lies –", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 18)
Anzaci"Can mortal paint with sorry stumbling words,", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 19-20)
The Heroic Griefi"Woman! Oh thou whose brave and holy name", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 21)
Note: Author note: Translation from a French War Poem
The Mothers of Belgiumi"Slow, slow,", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 22)
Sursum Cordsai"Why do ye weep", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 23-24)
The Sakkeihi"Do you hear the turning, turning, the interminable turning", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 25-26)
The Windi"There is a sound of wind among the trees", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 27)
Anzacs, Arise!i"Lay by your plough, your pen, take up your sword, Arise!", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 28)
Her Crossi"His Cross! His Cross!", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 29)
The Zeppelini"Twitching, she lies;", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 30)
Dawn!i"Across the sky the winged moon takes flight!", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 31)
Reveriei"Have you heard the bell-birds calling, thro' the grey Australian bush,", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 32)
Spring, 1915i"'With the falling of the leaves shall there be peace!'", Peter Austen , single work poetry (p. 33)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Being Elsewhere : Aesthetics, Identities and Alienation in Peter Austen's Life and Poetry Patrick Buckridge , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 5 2006; (p. 134-151)

Buckridge writes, 'The life and work of Peter Austen, an Australian poet and participant in the First World War, exemplify the defamiliarising function of the single instance, and suggest the possibility of unfamiliar, even "strange" ways in which people could live out the conventional role of the "soldierpoet." This paper offers an account of his brief writing career from that perspective.'

Buckridge aims 'to consider Peter Austen's work historically, as the record of an encounter between a certain kind of literary sensibility and the experience of active service. I am interested, in other words, in the process by which he 'wrote his war", in the cultural capital and aesthetic assumptions he brought to the confrontation, and in how these may have enabled him to come to terms with it and survive it. I shall also touch, finally, on the question of how the prolonged assaults on his sensibility changed his personality and his life...'

Look Down To-day Barrett Reid , 1945 single work criticism
— Appears in: Barjai , no. 19 1945; (p. 34-36)
Digger Poets : Peter Austen Bertram Stevens , 1920 single work biography
— Appears in: Aussie: The Australian Soldiers Magazine , 16 August vol. 2 no. 18 1920; (p. 18)
War Poems 1919 single work review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 7 June 1919; (p. 3)

— Review of The Young Gods Peter Austen , 1919 selected work poetry ; Trial and Probation: Poems of the World War Julian Robert Mitchell , 1919 selected work poetry
The Young Gods 1919 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 7 May vol. 99 no. 2575 1919; (p. 2)

— Review of The Young Gods Peter Austen , 1919 selected work poetry
War Poems 1919 single work review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 7 June 1919; (p. 3)

— Review of The Young Gods Peter Austen , 1919 selected work poetry ; Trial and Probation: Poems of the World War Julian Robert Mitchell , 1919 selected work poetry
A Satchel of Books 1919 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 27 March vol. 40 no. 2041 1919; (p. 20)

— Review of The Young Gods Peter Austen , 1919 selected work poetry
The Young Gods 1919 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 7 May vol. 99 no. 2575 1919; (p. 2)

— Review of The Young Gods Peter Austen , 1919 selected work poetry
Look Down To-day Barrett Reid , 1945 single work criticism
— Appears in: Barjai , no. 19 1945; (p. 34-36)
Being Elsewhere : Aesthetics, Identities and Alienation in Peter Austen's Life and Poetry Patrick Buckridge , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 5 2006; (p. 134-151)

Buckridge writes, 'The life and work of Peter Austen, an Australian poet and participant in the First World War, exemplify the defamiliarising function of the single instance, and suggest the possibility of unfamiliar, even "strange" ways in which people could live out the conventional role of the "soldierpoet." This paper offers an account of his brief writing career from that perspective.'

Buckridge aims 'to consider Peter Austen's work historically, as the record of an encounter between a certain kind of literary sensibility and the experience of active service. I am interested, in other words, in the process by which he 'wrote his war", in the cultural capital and aesthetic assumptions he brought to the confrontation, and in how these may have enabled him to come to terms with it and survive it. I shall also touch, finally, on the question of how the prolonged assaults on his sensibility changed his personality and his life...'

Digger Poets : Peter Austen Bertram Stevens , 1920 single work biography
— Appears in: Aussie: The Australian Soldiers Magazine , 16 August vol. 2 no. 18 1920; (p. 18)
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