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James McAuley Was born in Lakemba, NSW. He received his education at the University of Sydney. In 1940 he was awarded his MA. In 1942 he was drafted into the military where he was appointed to a post in the Australian Army Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs. In this position he was part of the training staff instructing the members of the Australian New Guinea Administration Unit. After that time McAuley maintained an great interest in New Guinea. He was then an instructor at the Australian School of Pacific Administration from 1946 to 1960, and frequently visited new Guinea. He gained world-wide regard among experts for his essays on New Guinea, which were printed in the publication South Pacific, throughout the 1940s and 1950s. His involvement in the Ern Malley Affair in the 1940s was influenced by his belief in conservative command, composition, elegance and exactness as opposed to what he considered to be the self-absorbed vast deviation of avant-garde verse of that time. McAuley became editor of Quadrant in 1956, and was named reader in poetry at the University of Tasmania in 1961, prior to becoming professor of English; a chair he held until his death. In his last years he was increasingly regarded as an intellectual and critic of some standing. From 1970 to 1975 he was president of the Australian Association for Teaching English, and was heavily involved in the founding of Australian Literary Studies. He won the Australia-Britannica Award in 1972, and was made AM in 1975. The James McAuley Lecture is delivered in his honour, at the University of Tasmania, annually.
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