The uncertain self: notes on the development of Australian literary form -- The metamorphoses of Henry Kendall -- Between living and dying: the ground of Lawson's art -- The confessions of a beachcomber -- 'Wherefore I think': notes on the poetry of Kenneth Slessor -- Wresting with the angel: Judith Wright's poetry in the 1950s -- Diversions and obsessions: A.D. Hope and Robert D. FitzGerald -- 'A rich surplus of consciousness': a response to the poetry of Francis Webb -- Eve Langley: Oscar Wilde in the Blue Mountains -- Hal Porter and the art of autobiography -- The emotional structure of The watcher on the cast-iron balcony -- Criticism and the universities -- Criticism and the individual talent -- 5 April 1984: the two Winstons
