Enid Derham (1882-1941). Courtesy PoemHunter.
Enid Derham (24 March 1882 - 13 November 1941) was an Australian poet and academic.
Life[]
Derham was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, the eldest daughter of Thomas Plumley Derham, solicitor, and his wife Ellen Hyde (née Hodgson), of Melbourne.[1] Derham was educated at Hessle College, Camberwell, then at Presbyterian Ladies' College and the University of Melbourne. She graduated M.A. with final honours in classics in 1903, and subsequently studied at the University of Oxford.
In 1912 she published The Mountain Road, and other verses, and Empire: A morality play for children. She also edited books of prose, poetry and drama.[1]
Derham lectured in English at the University of Western Australia in 1921. She was appointed senior lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne in 1922, and held this position for the rest of her life.
While her poetry was influenced by her classical studies, she was one of the earliest Australian writers to recognise the poetry of Emily Dickinson.[2]
She died suddenly of a brain haemorrhage at her home in 1941.
Recognition[]
In 1952 Melbourne University Press released a posthumous anthology of her best work called Poems, which established her reputation as a poet.
The University of Melbourne awards an annual Enid Derham Prize, open to students "who complete in the year of award their Fourth Year of the study of English whether as candidates for the degree of bachelor of Arts (degree with honours) in the school of English Language and Literature or in a combined honours course of which English Language and Literature forms a part. The prize is open to the candidate who shows the greatest appreciation of poetry."[3]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Mountain Road, and other verses. Melbourne: Osboldstone, 1912.
- How the Animals Came to Australia: An uncensored account. Melbourne: 1930.
- Poems. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1958.
Play[]
- Empire: A morality play for children. Melbourne: Victoria League of Victoria, 1912
Edited[]
- Two Centuries: Selections from English poetry and prose of the 18th and 19th centuries (edited with Adele Ellis). Mebourne: Melville Mullen, 1904.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
See also[]
References[]
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Derham, Enid". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson. http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogD.html#derham1.
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Imelda Palmer (1981). "Derham, Enid (1882 - 1941)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8. MUP. p. 289. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080308b.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
- ↑ Adelaide, Debra (1988) Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide p.49, London, Pandora
- ↑ The Enid Derham Prize, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. Web, July 1, 2014.
- ↑ Search results = au:Enid Derham, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, July 1, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- "The Mountain Road"
- "A Ballade of Home"
- Enid Derham (1882-1941) at Sonnet Central (2 sonnets)
- Enid Derham at PoemHunter (8 poems)
- Audio / video
- About
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