/lit/ - Literature

>In the 1920s there was a prominent artistic circle in Sydney, Australia, known to modern art historians by the alternate names of "Heroic Vitalists" and "paganists". Its followers believed that Australian art was on the verge of a "Renaissance", as they termed it, that was beyond the capacity of war-weary Europeans. They also worked diligently to bring about their Renaissance, believing that it wasn't something that would just happen. According to their pagan theories great achievements could only be attained as a consequence of active spiritual struggle.
>A literary magazine called Vision served as the vehicle for paganist views. Its editors were Norman Lindsay, his son Jack, and the young Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971). Slessor is now considered by some to have been Australia's finest poet – and has been voted the most popular.
>To the paganists Australia was a new arcadia. Its climate, its light, and even the seaward orientation of its habitable parts suggested ancient Greece. They also felt that the healthy outdoors lifestyle which most Australians then lived was itself leading to a Classical and athletic perfection of human form. Thus Rayner Hoff, the leading sculptor of this group, was outraged when another artist claimed that his 1927 torso Australian Venus was idealized rather than being (as it was) a realistic depiction of a radiantly healthy flesh-and-blood Australian woman.

>>18779183
oy mate im stoikey

>>16709442
Neet-cha

>>16392632
>Henry Lawson
>Frederic Manning
>Banjo Paterson
>Patrick White

It's not, "that" bad. Manning was a favourite of Pound's and he recommended it to all who wanted to start reading literature and poetry.