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Issue Details: First known date: 1939... 1939 This Vital Flesh
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Notes

  • Author's General Preface: ....The books of the present volume were written between 1909 and 1913, and were published during that period and shortly afterwards....I shall be satisifed if it is allowed that, in the different books reverted to above, I have looked from different points of view at 'this vital flesh'; and more so if it is conceded that each book is a unity in itself... W. B. (1939 edition, i-xix; 1961 edition, ix-xxvii).

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1961 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Life's Testament : Ii"From universal throes, immense", William Baylebridge , single work poetry (p. 1)
Life's Testament : II (i)i"The brain, the blood, the busy thews", William Baylebridge , single work poetry (p. 2)
Life's Testament : VI (iii)i"I worshipped, when my veins were fresh,", William Baylebridge , single work poetry (p. 20-21)
Life's Testament : II Life's Testament : XI (i)i"ALL that I am to Earth belongs;", William Baylebridge , single work poetry (p. 36)
Life's Testament XII Life's Testament : XIII (iii)i"Into ethereal meads,", William Baylebridge , single work poetry (p. 45)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Consists of 'Life's Testament', 'The New Life', 'National Notes' and some new poems.
Alternative title: Collected Works of William Baylebridge (Memorial Edition) vol.1
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1961 .
      Note/s:
      • Editor's note: ...This Vital Flesh is now reissued, as the first volume in this series, not only because its text is so clearly established, but also because the poet himself considered it the most significant of his works from the philosophical point of view, and stated further that in parts of it he came nearest to satisfying his own conscience as a poet. The present edition is printed with identical pagination and actually from the type of the limited edition of 1939, which has been kept standing for that purpose for twenty-two years...P. R. S. Sydney, 1961.(v-viii).

Works about this Work

Baylebridge, Nietzsche, Shaw : Some Observations on the 'New Nationalism' Noel Macainsh , 1975 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 7 no. 2 1975; (p. 141-159) The Pathos of Distance 1992; (p. 157-178)
Untitled 1962 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March vol. 1 no. 5 1962; (p. 68)
A Provincial Tupper J. M. S. O'Brien , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: The Critic , 16 March vol. 2 no. 7 1962; (p. 54)

— Review of This Vital Flesh William Baylebridge , 1939 selected work poetry prose
Poetry Chronicle 1962 Harry Payne Heseltine , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , December vol. 21 no. 4 1962; (p. 495-504)

— Review of Outrider : Poems, 1956-1962 Randolph Stow , 1962 selected work poetry ; Poems David Campbell , 1962 selected work poetry ; The Best Poems of Hugh McCrae Hugh McCrae , 1961 selected work poetry ; The Dogman and Other Poems Robert Clark , 1962 selected work poetry ; Flowers and Fury : Poems Geoffrey Dutton , 1962 selected work poetry ; This Vital Flesh William Baylebridge , 1939 selected work poetry prose ; Selected Poems of Kenneth Mackenzie Kenneth Mackenzie , 1961 selected work poetry ; Under the Bridge Bruce Beaver , 1961 selected work poetry ; No Fixed Address : Poems Bruce Dawe , 1962 selected work poetry ; A Few Mad Saints Don Maynard , 1962 selected work poetry ; Statues & Lovers Rodney Hall , 1962 selected work poetry ; Penniless Till Doomsday Rodney Hall , 1962 selected work poetry ; Four Poets David Malouf , Don Maynard , Judith Green , Rodney Hall , 1962 anthology selected work poetry ; A Question of Ignorance Judith Green , 1962 selected work poetry ; Poems John Bray , 1962 selected work poetry ; The Rainbow Serpent, and Other Poems Ernest G. Moll , 1962 selected work poetry ; Australian Poetry 1962 1962 anthology poetry ; A Book of Australian Verse 1956 anthology poetry ; The Moving Image : Poems Judith Wright , 1946 selected work poetry ; Deep Well Roland Robinson , 1962 selected work poetry
Lust for Universals John Thompson , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 3 February vol. 83 no. 4277 1962; (p. 48-49)

— Review of This Vital Flesh William Baylebridge , 1939 selected work poetry prose
A Provincial Tupper J. M. S. O'Brien , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: The Critic , 16 March vol. 2 no. 7 1962; (p. 54)

— Review of This Vital Flesh William Baylebridge , 1939 selected work poetry prose
Untitled Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , Winter vol. 6 no. 3 1962; (p. 82-83)

— Review of This Vital Flesh William Baylebridge , 1939 selected work poetry prose
Gurge and Heave Leonard R. Burrows , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , no. 1 1962; (p. 27-29)

— Review of This Vital Flesh William Baylebridge , 1939 selected work poetry prose
Baylebridge the Dionysian John Bray , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February vol. 1 no. 4 1962; (p. 54)

— Review of This Vital Flesh William Baylebridge , 1939 selected work poetry prose
Baylebridge Confused Judith Wright , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: Nation , 24 February 1962; (p. 23)

— Review of This Vital Flesh William Baylebridge , 1939 selected work poetry prose
y separately published work icon William Baylebridge and the Modern Problem Judith Wright , Canberra : Canberra University College , 1955 Z22317 1955 single work criticism
This Vital Flesh / William Baylebridge's Collected Volume is an Australian Philosophical Triumph P. R. Stephensen , 1940 single work essay
— Appears in: Publicist , July 1940, 8 1940; (p. 4-7)
Untitled 1962 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March vol. 1 no. 5 1962; (p. 68)
My Friend Baylebridge John Kirtley , 1955 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 16 no. 3 1955; (p. 135-137)
William Baylebridge R. G. Howarth , 1955 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 16 no. 3 1955; (p. 122-134)
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