James Phillip McAuley (12 October 1917 – 15 October 1976) was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism. McAuley was born in Lakemba, a suburb of Sydney. He was educated at Fort Street High School and then attended Sydney University where he majored in English, Latin and philosophy. In 1937 he edited Hermes, the annual literary journal of the University of Sydney Union, in which, many of his early poems were published until 1941.

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  • James Phillip McAuley (12 October 1917 – 15 October 1976) was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism. McAuley was born in Lakemba, a suburb of Sydney. He was educated at Fort Street High School and then attended Sydney University where he majored in English, Latin and philosophy. In 1937 he edited Hermes, the annual literary journal of the University of Sydney Union, in which, many of his early poems were published until 1941. He began his life as an Anglican and was sometime organist and choirmaster at Holy Trinity Church, Dulwich Hill in Sydney. McAuley lost his Christian faith as a younger man. In 1943 McAuley was commissioned as a lieutenant in the militia for the Australian Army, and served in Melbourne and Canberra. After the war he also spent time in New Guinea, which he regarded as his second "spiritual home". McAuley came to prominence in the wake of the 1945 Ern Malley hoax. With fellow poet, Harold Stewart, McAuley concocted sixteen nonsense poems in a pseudo-experimental modernist style. These were then sent to the young editor of the literary magazine Angry Penguins, Max Harris. The poems were raced to publication by Harris and Australia's most celebrated literary hoax was set in motion. In 1952 he converted to Roman Catholicism, the faith his own father had abandoned. This was in the parish of St Charles at Ryde. He was later introduced to Australian musician Richard Connolly by a priest, Ted Kennedy, at the Holy Spirit parish at North Ryde and the two subsequently collaborated to produce between them the most significant collection of Australian Catholic hymnody to date, titled "Hymns for the Year of Grace". Connolly was McAuley's sponsor for his confirmation into the Roman Catholic Church. In his undergraduate years McAuley was influenced by both communism and anarchism, but although a man of the Left, McAuley remained staunchly anti-communist throughout his later life. In 1956 he and Richard Krygier founded the literary and cultural journal, Quadrant and was chief editor until 1963. From 1961 he was professor of English at the University of Tasmania. A portrait of McAuley by J Carrington Smith won the 1963 Archibald prize. James McAuley died of cancer in 1976, at the age of 59, in Hobart.
  • James Phillip McAuley war ein australischer Dichter, Journalist und Literaturkritiker. McAuley wurde in Lakemba, einem Vorort von Sydney geboren. Er besuchte die Universität von Sydney. 1943 wurde McAuley Leutnant in der Australischen Armee und diente in Melbourne und Canberra. Nach dem Krieg verbrachte er einige Zeit in Neu Guinea, welches er als seine zweite „spirituelle Heimat“ bezeichnete. McAuley wurde 1944 durch die Ern Malley-Fälschung bekannt. Mit seinem Freund Harold Stewart verfasste er sechzehn Nonsens-Gedichte in einem pseudo-experimentellen modernistischen Stil, die er unter dem Namen „Ethel Malley“ (der fiktiven Schwester Ern Malleys) an den jungen Herausgeber des Literaturmagazins „Angry Penguins“, Max Harris sandte. Harris veröffentlichte die Gedichte unwissend in einer Sonderausgabe seines Magazins. Einige Wochen später flog der Schwindel durch einen Bericht in der Sunday Sun auf. Außerdem verfasste McAuley das Gedicht „Captain Quiros“ über Pedro Fernández de Quirós, in dem dieser spanische Konquistador als Märtyrer geschildert wird, der den Pazifikraum zivilisieren wollte. 1956 gründete er mit Richard Krygier das Literatur- und Kulturmagazin Quadrant, und war der Herausgeber bis 1963. Ab 1961 war er Anglistik-Dozent der Universität von Tasmanien.
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  • James Phillip McAuley (12 October 1917 – 15 October 1976) was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism. McAuley was born in Lakemba, a suburb of Sydney. He was educated at Fort Street High School and then attended Sydney University where he majored in English, Latin and philosophy. In 1937 he edited Hermes, the annual literary journal of the University of Sydney Union, in which, many of his early poems were published until 1941.
  • James Phillip McAuley war ein australischer Dichter, Journalist und Literaturkritiker. McAuley wurde in Lakemba, einem Vorort von Sydney geboren. Er besuchte die Universität von Sydney. 1943 wurde McAuley Leutnant in der Australischen Armee und diente in Melbourne und Canberra. Nach dem Krieg verbrachte er einige Zeit in Neu Guinea, welches er als seine zweite „spirituelle Heimat“ bezeichnete. McAuley wurde 1944 durch die Ern Malley-Fälschung bekannt.
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