of the premier poets of his day, critical opinion of Baylebridge has since waned considerably. On balance, the critic Firmin McKinnon probably put it best: "[Baylebridge's] outstanding fault is his obscurity, much of which, one fears, was deliberate and artificial. That is a pity for unquestionably he had poetic genius. Because of his affectation and obscurity his poetry will remain only for that select few who are willing to plod their way across tedious stretches of aridity in the hope of finding a few rare exotic blooms in places unfrequented by the ordinary seeker of Truth and Beauty." Baylebridge died on 7 May 1942. He is buried in South Head Cemetery. He never married and had no children. Bibliography Songs o' the South (1908) Australia to England and other verses (1909) Moreton Miles (1910) Southern Songs (1910) A Northern Trail (1910) The New Life: A National Tract (to the men of Australia) (1910) National Notes (1913) Life's Testament: Songs from the Hill of the seven echoes (1914) Seven Tales (1916) A Wreath (1916) Selected Poems (1919) An Anzac Muster (1921) National Notes (Second ed.) (1922) Love Redeemed (1934) National Notes (Third ed.) (1936) Life's Testament (Second ed.) (1939) Sextains (1939) This Vital Flesh (1939) - Awarded the 1940 ALS Gold Medal Moreton Miles (Second ed.) (1941) This Vital Flesh (1961) - Collected Works Volume 1 An Anzac Muster (Second ed.) (1962) - Collected Works Volume 2 The Growth of Love (1963) - Collected Works Volume 3 Salvage (1964) - Collected Works Volume 4 References Bonnin, Nancy. 'Baylebridge, William (1883 - 1942)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, MUP, 1979, pp 218–219. Davison, Graeme (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Australian History (rev. ed., 2001: Oxford, Oxford University Press). Jupp, James (ed.). The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and their Origins (2nd ed., 2001: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press). Keri, Adrian (Adrian Keri). Australian Literary Fascists, 1905-1945: A Comparative Case Study into the Development of Fascist Ideology in Australia. University of Notre Dame Australia, 2021. Macainsh, Noel. Nietzsche in Australia: A Literary Inquiry into a Nationalistic Ideology (Munich, 1976). Miller, E. Morris, & Frederick T. Macartney. Australian Literature (1956, revised edition) Angus and Robertson, Sydney, pp. 53–55 Roberts, Neil (ed.). A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry (2001: Oxford, Blackwell). Additional sources listed by the Australian Dictionary of Biography: H. A. Kellow, Queensland Poets (Lond, 1930); T. I. Moore, Six Australian