The solitary shapers -- Masculine strength -- Lawson's Joe Wilson: a skeleton novel -- Martin Boyd and The cardboard crown -- Among the front runners: intellectuals and Australian literature -- My 1930's -- Melbourne in 1963 -- The other world -- Three faces of hope -- James McAuley's early poetry -- Order and turbulence -- My ghost, my self: the poetry of Gwen Harwood -- The spells of the landscape.
