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Christopher John Brennan was born in Sydney, Australia in 1870 of Irish parents. Brennan first studied for the priesthood, but abandoned his vocation at St. Ignatius College for the University of Sydney. There Brennan concentrated on classics and philosophy, graduating from the University with first class honours in 1891. He received a James King of Irrawang Travelling Scholarship, which allowed him to study at the University of Berlin. However, Brennan returned to Sydney in 1894 without the doctorate, due to both his attraction to the Berlin intellectual society and an affair with Anna Werth, his landlady’s daughter. In 1897 he married Anna Werth in Sydney, and they had four children. The marriage faltered after 1907, and Brennan became a well-known presence in Sydney’s café society. Brennan was heavily influenced by European Symbolist poetry, and in 1913 he published Poems, which has remained his most well-known work. In 1920 Brennan was appointed professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Sydney. He had long wanted this post, but the wait may have been due to his alcoholism and the eroticism in his 1897 poetry collection. He was dismissed by the University Senate in 1925 due to the controversy over his divorce and subsequent affair with Violet Singer. In his last years Brennan was often depressed as a result of Singer’s death in 1925; he also lived in poverty, helped by occasional teaching opportunities, friends and relatives. Brennan died in 1932.

  • Clark, Axel, "Brennan, Christopher John (1870-1932)." Australian Dictionary of Biography. VII. Melbourne University Press, 1979. 397-99. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070405b.htm
  • Brennan, Christopher. XXI poems: MDCCCXCIII-MDCCCXCVII: towards the Source.. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1897.
  • --. Poems: 1913, Sydney: G. B. Philip and Son, 1914. See Australian Poets eTexts Project, The Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS)
  • --. A Chant of Doom: and other Verses. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1918. Digital facsimile by the University of Sydney Library, 1999. See http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit
  • --. The Burden of Tyre. Sydney: Harry F. Chaplin, 1953.
  • --. The Verse of Christopher Brennan. Ed. A. R. Chisholm and J. J. Quinn. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1960.
  • --. The Prose of Christopher Brennan. Ed. A. R. Chisholm and J. J. Quinn. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1962.
  • --. Christopher Brennan. Ed. Terry Sturm. St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1984.

We are grateful for access to AustLit in the preparation of these poems.

Biography

Christopher John Brennan was born in Sydney, Australia in 1870 of Irish parents. Brennan first studied for the priesthood, but abandoned his vocation at St. Ignatius College for the University of Sydney. There Brennan concentrated on classics and philosophy, graduating from the University with first class honours in 1891. He received a James King of Irrawang Travelling Scholarship, which allowed him to study at the University of Berlin. However, Brennan returned to Sydney in 1894 without the doctorate, due to both his attraction to the Berlin intellectual society and an affair with Anna Werth, his landlady’s daughter. In 1897 he married Anna Werth in Sydney, and they had four children. The marriage faltered after 1907, and Brennan became a well-known presence in Sydney’s café society. Brennan was heavily influenced by European Symbolist poetry, and in 1913 he published Poems, which has remained his most well-known work. In 1920 Brennan was appointed professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Sydney. He had long wanted this post, but the wait may have been due to his alcoholism and the eroticism in his 1897 poetry collection. He was dismissed by the University Senate in 1925 due to the controversy over his divorce and subsequent affair with Violet Singer. In his last years Brennan was often depressed as a result of Singer’s death in 1925; he also lived in poverty, helped by occasional teaching opportunities, friends and relatives. Brennan died in 1932.

  • Clark, Axel, "Brennan, Christopher John (1870-1932)." Australian Dictionary of Biography. VII. Melbourne University Press, 1979. 397-99. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070405b.htm
  • Brennan, Christopher. XXI poems: MDCCCXCIII-MDCCCXCVII: towards the Source.. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1897.
  • --. Poems: 1913, Sydney: G. B. Philip and Son, 1914. See Australian Poets eTexts Project, The Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS)
  • --. A Chant of Doom: and other Verses. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1918. Digital facsimile by the University of Sydney Library, 1999. See http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit
  • --. The Burden of Tyre. Sydney: Harry F. Chaplin, 1953.
  • --. The Verse of Christopher Brennan. Ed. A. R. Chisholm and J. J. Quinn. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1960.
  • --. The Prose of Christopher Brennan. Ed. A. R. Chisholm and J. J. Quinn. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1962.
  • --. Christopher Brennan. Ed. Terry Sturm. St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1984.

We are grateful for access to AustLit in the preparation of these poems.

Biography

Christopher John Brennan was born in Sydney, Australia in 1870 of Irish parents. Brennan first studied for the priesthood, but abandoned his vocation at St. Ignatius College for the University of Sydney. There Brennan concentrated on classics and philosophy, graduating from the University with first class honours in 1891. He received a James King of Irrawang Travelling Scholarship, which allowed him to study at the University of Berlin. However, Brennan returned to Sydney in 1894 without the doctorate, due to both his attraction to the Berlin intellectual society and an affair with Anna Werth, his landlady’s daughter. In 1897 he married Anna Werth in Sydney, and they had four children. The marriage faltered after 1907, and Brennan became a well-known presence in Sydney’s café society. Brennan was heavily influenced by European Symbolist poetry, and in 1913 he published Poems, which has remained his most well-known work. In 1920 Brennan was appointed professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Sydney. He had long wanted this post, but the wait may have been due to his alcoholism and the eroticism in his 1897 poetry collection. He was dismissed by the University Senate in 1925 due to the controversy over his divorce and subsequent affair with Violet Singer. In his last years Brennan was often depressed as a result of Singer’s death in 1925; he also lived in poverty, helped by occasional teaching opportunities, friends and relatives. Brennan died in 1932.

  • Clark, Axel, "Brennan, Christopher John (1870-1932)." Australian Dictionary of Biography. VII. Melbourne University Press, 1979. 397-99. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070405b.htm
  • Brennan, Christopher. XXI poems: MDCCCXCIII-MDCCCXCVII: towards the Source.. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1897.
  • --. Poems: 1913, Sydney: G. B. Philip and Son, 1914. See Australian Poets eTexts Project, The Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS)
  • --. A Chant of Doom: and other Verses. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1918. Digital facsimile by the University of Sydney Library, 1999. See http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit
  • --. The Burden of Tyre. Sydney: Harry F. Chaplin, 1953.
  • --. The Verse of Christopher Brennan. Ed. A. R. Chisholm and J. J. Quinn. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1960.
  • --. The Prose of Christopher Brennan. Ed. A. R. Chisholm and J. J. Quinn. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1962.
  • --. Christopher Brennan. Ed. Terry Sturm. St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1984.

We are grateful for access to AustLit in the preparation of these poems.

Biography

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  • Apparitions Are Not Singular Occurrences
  • Belly Dancer
  • Blue Monday
  • Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
  • Inside Out
  • Picture of a Girl Drawn in Black and White
  • Smudging
  • Tearing Up My Mother's Letters
  • Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
  • The Father of My Country
  • The Hitchhikers
  • The Photos
  • The Ring
  • The Story of Richard Maxfield
  • Uneasy Rider

     

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      • Wakoski, Diane. Coins and Coffins. New York, NY: Hawk's Well Press, 1962.
      • --. Dream Sheet. New York, NY: Software Press, 1965.
      • --. Discrepancies and Apparitions. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1966.
      • --. The George Washington Poems. New York, NY: Riverrun Press, 1967.
      • --. The Diamond Merchant. Cambridge, MA: Sans Souci Press, 1968.
      • --. Inside the Blood Factory. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
      • --. Greed. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, Parts 1 and 2, 1968, Parts 3 and 4, 1969, Parts 5, 6, 7, 1971, Parts 8, 9, 11, 1973.
      • --. The Lament of the Lady Bank Dick. Cambridge, MA: Sans Souci Press, 1969.
      • --. The Moon Has a Complicated Geography. Palo Alto, CA: Odda Tala Press, 1969.
      • --. Poems. Key Printing Co., 1969.
      • --. Some Black Poems for the Buddha's Birthday. Pierripont Press, 1969.
      • --. Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969.
      • --. Love, You Big Fat Snail. San Francisco, CA: Tenth Muse, 1970.
      • --. Black Dream Ditty for Billy "the Kid" M Seen in Dr. Generosity's Bar Recruiting for Hell's Angels and Black Mafia. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
      • --. The Wise Men Drawn to Kneel in Wonder at the Fact So of Itself. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
      • --. The Magellanic Clouds. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
      • --. On Barbara's Shore. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971.
      • --. The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971.
      • --. This Water Baby: For Tony. Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press, 1971.
      • --. Exorcism. Boston, MA: My Dukes, 1971.
      • --. The Purple Finch Song. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1972.
      • --. Sometimes a Poet Will Hijack the Moon. Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1972.
      • --. Smudging. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
      • --. The Pumpkin Pie: or, Reassurances Are Always False, Tho We Love Them, Only Physics Counts. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
      • --. Winter Sequences. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
      • --. Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
      • --. Stilllife: Michael, Silver Flute, and Violets. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut Library, 1973.
      • --. The Owl and the Snake: A Fable. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press , 1973.
      • --. The Wandering Tatler. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1974.
      • --. Trilogy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.
      • --. Looking for the King of Spain. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
      • --. Abalone. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
      • --. Virtuoso Literature for Two and Four Hands. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975.
      • --. The Fable of the Lion and the Scorpion. Milwaukee, WI: Pentagram Press, 1975.
      • --. The Laguna Contract of Diane Wakoski. Madison, WI: Crepuscular Press, 1976.
      • --. George Washington's Camp Cups. Madison, WI: Red Ozier Press, 1976.
      • --. Waiting for the King of Spain. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976.
      • --. The Last Poem. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976.
      • --. The Ring. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
      • --. Spending Christmas with the Man from Receiving at Sears. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
      • --. Overnight Projects with Wood. Madison, WI: Red Ozier Press, 1977.
      • --. Pachelbel's Canon. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
      • --. The Man Who Shook Hands. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978.
      • --. Trophies. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1979.
      • --. Cap of Darkness. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980.
      • --. Saturn's Rings. New York, NY: Targ Editions, 1982.
      • --. Divers. Barbarian Press, 1982.
      • --. The Lady Who Drove Me to the Airport. Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1982.
      • --. The Magician's Feastletters. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
      • --. The Collected Greed, Parts 1-13. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1984.
      • --. The Managed World. New York, NY: Red Ozier Press, 1985.
      • --. Why My Mother Likes Liberace: A Musical Selection. Tucson, AZ: SUN/Gemini Press, 1985.
      • --. Celebration of the Rose: For Norman on Christmas Day. Montclair, NJ: Caliban Press, 1987.
      • --. Roses. Montclair, NJ: Caliban Press, 1987.
      • --. Husks of Wheat. Northridge, CA: California State University, Northridge Library, 1987.
      • --. Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1988.
      • --. Medea the Sorceress ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1991.
      • --. Jason the Sailor ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Black Sparrow Press. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
      • --. The Emerald City of Las Vegas ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995.
      • --. Argonaut Rose ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1998.
      • --. The Butcher's Apron: New and Selected Poems. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 2000.
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  • --.A Short Walk from the Station. New York: Viking, 1952. PS3525 .A23293 S5 1957 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
  • --.Love Letters. New York: Viking, 1954. PS3525 .A2329 L6 John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
  • --. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. New York: Viking, 1958. PS3525 .A2329 M4 John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
  • --. Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades with Seventy New Poems. Foreword by W. H. Auden. New York: Viking, 1960. PS3525 .A23293 T5 1960 Robarts Library.
  • --. A Wreath of Christmas Legends. New York: Macmillan, 1967 PS3535 .A23293 W7 1968. University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
  • --.Christmas Con and Pro. New York: Hart Press, 1971.
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Biography
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