39-753: Douglas Stewart may refer to: Douglas Stewart (poet) (1913–1985), Australian poet Edward Askew Sothern (1826–1881), English actor who was sometimes known as Douglas Stewart Douglas Stewart (equestrian) (1913–1991), British Olympic equestrian Douglas Stewart (film editor) (1919–1995), American film and television editor Douglas Day Stewart , American screenwriter Doug Stewart (game designer) Doug Stewart (radio broadcaster) Doug (Lawrence Douglas) Stewart, Australian race and rally driver and founder of Ralliart Douglass Stewart , American playwright See also [ edit ] Douglas Stuart (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
78-430: A UNESCO traveling scholarship to Europe and so the family of three spent eight months on the continent in 1954. Stewart and Coen maintained close friendships with several contemporary artists and literati including Norman Lindsay , Kenneth Slessor , Nancy Keesing , David Campbell , Rosemary Dobson , her publisher husband Alec Bolton , and publisher Beatrice Davis . In addition to his literary pursuits, Stewart
117-690: A book about a game he loved, Cricket Country (1944). He returned to full-time writing in 1944, becoming assistant editor of The Times Literary Supplement . In 1947, he returned to Japan as a member of the British liaison mission in Tokyo. In 1953 after three years back in England, he accepted the post of Professor of English Literature at the University of Hong Kong. Blunden retired in 1964 and settled in Suffolk . In 1966, he
156-588: A journalist in New Zealand in the early 1930s. In 1936, he published his first volume of poems, Green Lions , before moving permanently to Australia in 1938 to become Assistant Literary Editor of The Bulletin . Two years later he was appointed Literary Editor of its "Red Page", and he retained this position for the next twenty years. He left in 1961, after a change in ownership, and joined the Australian publisher, Angus & Robertson , where he worked until 1972. He
195-483: A number of verse-plays and a volume of short stories. He also contributed to the script for the award-winning Australian documentary, The Back of Beyond (1954). Stewart, like Campbell, Wright and many poets of his time, drew much of his inspiration from nature, and is best known for his "meditative nature poems". His last book was a diary about the garden at his home in St. Ives. As well as writing poetry, Stewart also made
234-537: A significant contribution in the area of radio and verse drama. The Fire on the Snow , his verse play dramatising Scott 's tragic Antarctic journey, was written at night, sometimes all night, while he worked for The Bulletin magazine. It was performed on ABC radio in 1941 to great success, and started a new interest in writing verse plays. It was broadcast on the BBC in England, and was translated into Icelandic and German. In
273-610: A temporary lieutenant (having been promoted to that rank in September 1916), he was awarded the Military Cross (MC), the citation for which reads: For conspicuous gallantry in action. He displayed great courage and determination when in charge of a carrying party under heavy fire. He has previously done fine work. Blunden survived nearly two years in the front line without physical injury (despite being gassed in October 1917 ), but for
312-691: Is "Brindabella" from his Collected Poems 1936–1967 . Although nature was his main subject, he, like David Campbell and Vance Palmer , "did not write polemics about conservation. This became the concern of their immediate successors – Judith Wright , Mark O'Connor and John Blight ". He received a number of awards in recognition of his achievements, including: Persse, Jonathan, ed. (2006) Letters Lifted into Poetry: Selected Correspondence between David Campbell and Douglas Stewart , Canberra, National Library of Australia, 268pp, ISBN 978-0-642-27638-4 . Edmund Blunden Edmund Charles Blunden CBE MC (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974)
351-433: Is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." Blunden's output was prolific. To those who thought that he published too much, he quoted Walter de la Mare 's observation that time was the poet's best editor. Poetry Biographical books on romantic figures : Memoir : Artists Rifles , an audiobook CD published in 2004, includes a reading of Concert Party, Busseboom by Blunden himself, recorded in 1964 by
390-414: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Douglas Stewart (poet) Douglas Stewart AO OBE (6 May 1913 – 14 February 1985) was a major twentieth century Australian poet, as well as short story writer, essayist and literary editor. He published 13 collections of poetry, 5 verse plays, including the well-known Fire on
429-812: Is often given credit for, he did have a distaste for rhetoric and declamation and a preference for the Audenesque air of jaunty reasonableness" and that "he was sceptical about large religious affirmation". The Bulletin , along with Meanjin and Southerly were significant magazines for promoting the poetic achievement of writers and for establishing a cultural milieu in which younger poets could refine their skills. During his editorship The Bulletin published such poets as Judith Wright , Francis Webb , David Campbell , Rosemary Dobson , Chris Wallace-Crabbe , Randolph Stow and Vivian Smith . While working with The Bulletin , Stewart published six volumes of his own poems, co-edited two books of Australian poetry, and produced
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#1732858570807468-545: The London Mercury . In 1931, he returned to Oxford as a Fellow of Merton College , where he was highly regarded as a tutor. During his years in Oxford, Blunden published extensively: several collections of poetry including Choice or Chance (1934) and Shells by a Stream (1944), prose works on Charles Lamb ; Edward Gibbon ; Leigh Hunt ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ( Shelley: A Life Story ); John Taylor ; and Thomas Hardy ; and
507-871: The CBE , 1951; the Queen's gold medal for Poetry, 1956; the Royal Society of Literature 's Benson Medal; the Order of the Rising Sun , 3rd Class (Japan), 1963; and honorary Membership of the Japan Academy . On 11 November 1985, Blunden was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey . The inscription on the stone was taken from Wilfred Owen 's "Preface" to his poems and reads: "My subject
546-568: The Stratford Evening Post . In 1937, he traveled to England, where he was employed as a pantry man on the "Doric Star." Once in England, however, he was unable to find work as a journalist, and so he worked for a short time as a barman at the "Churchill Arms" in Knightsbridge. He also met writers Edmund Blunden and John Cowper Powys He returned to Australia in 1938 and took up a position with The Bulletin . He attempted to enlist in
585-488: The actor ) and Coleridge is bound to have a special charm of its own. As Blunden says, "The game which made me write at all, is not terminated at the boundary, but is reflected beyond, is echoed and varied out there among the gardens and the barns, the dells and the thickets, and belongs to some wider field." Perhaps that is what all books on cricket are trying to say. Blunden had a robust sense of humour. In Hong Kong, he relished linguistic misunderstandings such as those of
624-434: The A.I.F. near the beginning of the war, but was rejected on medical grounds and so volunteered to serve as an air raid warden instead. He married the painter Margaret Coen in 1945, and they had a daughter, Meg. They lived in a flat in the city of Sydney until 1953 when they moved to St. Ives in the northern suburbs. It was still rural countryside then, close to the natural beauty of Ku-ring-gai Chase . That year he won
663-520: The Snow , many short stories and critical essays, and biographies of Norman Lindsay and Kenneth Slessor . He also edited several poetry anthologies. His greatest contribution to Australian literature came from his 20 years as literary editor of The Bulletin , his 10 years as a publishing editor with Angus & Robertson , and his lifetime support of Australian writers. Geoffrey Serle, literary critic, has described Stewart as "the greatest all-rounder of modern Australian literature". Douglas Stewart
702-622: The anthem of the Tokyo University RFC. He returned to England in 1927, and was literary editor of the Nation for a year. In 1927, he published a short book, On the Poems of Henry Vaughan , Characteristics and Intimations, with his principal Latin poems carefully translated into English verse (London: H. Cobden-Sanderson, 1927), expanding and revising an essay that he had published, in November 1926, in
741-499: The batting for a publisher's eleven in the 1930s (Blunden insisted on batting without gloves). An affectionate obituary tribute in The Guardian commented, "He loved cricket… and played it ardently and very badly", and in a review of Cricket Country , George Orwell described him as "the true cricketer": The test of a true cricketer is that he shall prefer village cricket to 'good' cricket [.... Blunden's] friendliest memories are of
780-601: The churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford . Blunden was married three times. While still in the army, he met and married Mary Daines in 1918. They had three children, the first of whom died in infancy. They divorced in 1931, and in 1933, Blunden married Sylva Norman, a young novelist and critic. That marriage, which was childless, was dissolved in 1945. The same year, he married Claire Margaret Poynting (1918–2000), one of his former pupils. Together, they had four daughters, who included Margaret, Lucy, and Frances. While in Japan in
819-492: The informal village game, where everyone plays in braces, where the blacksmith is liable to be called away in mid-innings on an urgent job, and sometimes, about the time when the light begins to fail, a ball driven for four kills a rabbit on the boundary. In a 2009 appreciation of the book and its author, Bangalore writer Suresh Menon wrote: Any cricket book that talks easily of Henry James and Siegfried Sassoon and Ranji and Grace and Richard Burton (the writer, not
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#1732858570807858-497: The part of Stewart, who was "one of Australia's finest critics". Much of his writing took nature and the natural world as its subject matter. Sometimes, such as in his work of the 1950s, he focused "intensely on the natural world, choosing small creatures and details close to the earth to exemplify larger themes." Examples are "Frogs" from his 1952 Sun Orchids , and "The Fungus". Other works, though, "are more simply impressionistic imagery, and less thematically burdened". An example
897-535: The poems of John Clare (mostly from Clare's manuscript). Blunden's next book of poems, The Shepherd , published in 1922, won the Hawthornden Prize , but his poetry, though well reviewed, did not provide enough to live on. In 1924, he accepted the post of Professor of English at the University of Tokyo . In December 1925, he dedicated a poem « UP!UP! » to the rugby men of the University and this became
936-432: The rest of his life, he bore mental scars from his experiences. With characteristic self-deprecation, he attributed his survival to his diminutive size, which made "an inconspicuous target". His own account of his experiences was published in 1928, as Undertones of War . Blunden left the army in 1919 and took up the scholarship at Oxford that he had won while he was still at school. On the same English literature course
975-489: The restaurant that offered "fried prawn's balls" and the schoolboy who wrote, "In Hong Kong there is a queer at every bus-stop". His fellow poets' regard for Blunden was illustrated by the contributions to a dinner in his honour for which poems were specially written by Cecil Day-Lewis and William Plomer ; T. S. Eliot and Walter de la Mare were guests; and Sassoon provided the Burgundy . Blunden's public honours included
1014-409: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Stewart&oldid=1055675263 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1053-495: The same year he completed his next verse play, Ned Kelly , which won an open ABC competition in 1941, and in 1942 he won again with The Golden Lover , which was a romantic comedy, a change from the previous two heroic tragedies. Ned Kelly , written for theatre, was first performed on radio in 1942. However, in 1943 it was performed in the theatre by the Sydney University Dramatic Society , and later that year
1092-490: The summer of 1925, he met Aki Hayashi, and he began a relationship. When Blunden returned to England in 1927, Aki accompanied him and would become his secretary. The relationship later changed from a romantic one to a platonic friendship, and they remained in contact for the rest of her life. Blunden's love of cricket, celebrated in his book Cricket Country , is described by the biographer Philip Ziegler as fanatical. Blunden and his friend Rupert Hart-Davis regularly opened
1131-471: The wonders of nature was to last throughout his lifetime, so that in 1938, when he moved to Australia, it is understandable that he also fell in love with the unique Australian bush. This is what he sought to capture in his poetry. Stewart lived in Australia in 1933 for a short time, working as a free-lance journalist. He then returned to New Zealand where he continued to work as a journalist, becoming editor of
1170-479: Was Robert Graves , and the two were close friends during their time at Oxford together, but Blunden found university life unsatisfactory and left in 1920 to take up a literary career, at first acting as assistant to Middleton Murry on the Athenaeum . An early supporter was Siegfried Sassoon, who became a lifelong friend. In 1920, Blunden published a collection of poems, The Waggoner , and with Alan Porter, he edited
1209-664: Was a keen fisherman and often went trout fishing with his friend, the poet David Campbell. He died in 1985, and was buried at Frenchs Forest Cemetery . Stewart wrote his first poetry at fourteen years of age, while he still lived in New Zealand. He began initially because of the need to produce a poem for his school magazine, but his love for reading and writing poetry developed rapidly. He read widely, including Shakespeare , Wordsworth , Milton and Coleridge , enjoying their ability to compact powerful description into language, and to convey emotion through sound, rhythm and word selection. As he read he worked on his own writing. His father
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1248-412: Was a subscriber to The Bulletin from Australia and the young Stewart regularly sent poems to that magazine, the vast majority of which were rejected. However, he had the thrill of seeing some of his poems published in a companion magazine, The Australian Women's Mirror , as well as newspapers and magazines in New Zealand. This encouraged him to continue. After his university studies, Stewart worked as
1287-482: Was also a member of the advisory board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund from 1955–70. The years working for The Bulletin were highly productive, both in terms of personal output and for his contribution to Australia's literary life. Goodwin writes that he "had a profound influence on the publishing of Australian poetry in the 1940s and early 1950s". Goodwin goes on to write that "More eclectic than he
1326-945: Was also performed in Melbourne. David Campbell's first poem, Harry Pearce , was published in The Bulletin in 1942, but he and Stewart did not meet until the last year of the war. The two poets maintained a correspondence over a long period, from 1946–1979. The main subject of their correspondence was poetry, though they also covered "fellow authors, fishing, nature and the land". They discussed fellow Australian writers such as Judith Wright, R. D. Fitzgerald and Francis Webb ; past writers such as Shakespeare, Wordsworth and W. B. Yeats ; and also contemporary British and American writers such as Dylan Thomas , whom they both praised and criticised, and T. S. Eliot , whose later plays they did not like. In other words, their correspondence conveys their "exploration and understanding of poetry", particularly on
1365-645: Was an English poet, author, and critic . Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon , he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong. He ended his career as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford . He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times. Born in London, Blunden
1404-572: Was born in Eltham , Taranaki Province , New Zealand , to an Australian-born lawyer father. He attended primary school in his home town, and a high school thirty miles away, before studying at the University of Wellington . He began studying law there, but soon changed courses to major in writing and journalism. As a young boy, Stewart fell in love with the New Zealand countryside. He roamed its valleys, rivers, and mountains, often camping out and frequently indulging in his love of fishing. This appreciation of
1443-462: Was nominated for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry in succession to Graves; with some misgivings, he agreed to stand and was elected by a large majority over the other candidate, Robert Lowell . However, he now found the strain of public lecturing too much for him, and after two years, he resigned. He died of a heart attack at his home at Long Melford , Suffolk, in 1974, and is buried in
1482-691: Was posted to the 11th (Service) Battalion (1st South Down), Royal Sussex Regiment, a Kitchener's Army unit that formed part of the 116th Brigade of the 39th Division in May 1916, two months after the battalion's arrival in France. He served with the battalion on the Western Front to the end of the war, taking part in the actions at Ypres and the Somme , followed in 1917 by the Battle of Passchendaele . In January 1917, and by now
1521-491: Was the eldest of the nine children of Charles Edmund Blunden (1871–1951) and his wife, Georgina Margaret née Tyler, who were joint-headteachers of Yalding school. Blunden was educated at Christ's Hospital and The Queen's College, Oxford . In September 1915, over a year after the outbreak of World War I , Blunden was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant into the British Army 's Royal Sussex Regiment . He
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