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Article: At the height of our time? James McAuley's twenty Quadrants. (Literature).(on Australian literature)(Editorial)
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- Quadrant
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- November 1, 2002
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THREE POETS and one music critic put in for the job of editor of Quadrant in 1955. It was not yet called Quadrant. But it was to be a quarterly in the tradition of the Quarterly Review or the Edinburgh Review in the nineteenth century and Encounter in the twentieth. It would be published by the Australian Committee for Cultural Freedom, under the chairmanship of the eminent jurist Sir John Latham, late of the High Court of Australia.
Kenneth Slessor was the best known of the applicants. In his submission he insisted that the magazine must above all be literary. It must certainly not be party-political. It must also avoid cultural cliques and the editor must be ...