Alan Rowland Chisholm

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Alan Rowland Chisholm (born November 6, 1888 in Bathurst (New South Wales) , † September 10, 1981 in Melbourne ) was an Australian Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Chisholm studied in Sydney and from 1912 in Berlin, Paris and Leipzig. From 1915 to 1918 he did military service on the French front and from 1921 to 1956 he was Professor of French at the University of Melbourne . Lloyd James Austin was one of his students . Chisholm, like Austin later, researched Mallarmé, to which he had been made aware by Christopher Brennan .

Works

  • The art of Arthur Rimbaud, Melbourne 1930
  • (Ed.) Chateaubriand, Atala, London 1932
  • (Ed.) Gautier, Le capitaine Fracasse, London 1932
  • Towards Hérodiade. A literary genealogy, Melbourne 1934, New York 1979
  • An approach to M. Valery's "Jeune Parque", Melbourne 1938
  • (Ed. With John G. Stanbury) Light out of France. French contributions to civilization, London 1951
  • (Ed.) Thirty French poems with comments, Sydney 1957
  • Mallarmé's l'après-midi d'un faune. An exegetical and critical study, Melbourne 1958 (French: Brussels 1974)
  • Mallarmé's Grand Oeuvre, Manchester 1962
  • (Ed. With JJ Quinn) The Verse of Christopher Brennan, London 1963
  • (Ed.) Selected poems of Christopher Brennan, Sydney 1966
  • (Ed.) Paul Valéry, Aliquot Carmina, Cremona 1969 (Poetarium vicesimi saeculi scripta, 3)
  • Study of Christopher Brennan's The Forest Of Night, Melbourne 1970, 1973
  • (Ed.) The Poems of Shaw Neilson, Sydney 1973

literature

  • AR Chisholm, Men were my milestones. Australian portraits and sketches, 1958
  • AR Chisholm, The familiar presence and other reminiscences, 1966
  • Complimentary number offered to AR Chisholm, Christchurch 1959 ("AUMLA" [Journal of the Australasian universities, modern language association] 10, May 1959)
  • Studies in honor of AR Chisholm, ed. by Wallace Kirsop, Melbourne 1970 (Australian Journal of French Studies 6, 1969, 2-3)
  • [Obituary in:] French Studies 36, 1982, pp. 246-247

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personal data
SURNAME Chisholm, Alan Rowland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chisholm, Alan R .; Chisholm, AR
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Bathurst, New South Wales
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1981
Place of death Melbourne