He remained staunchly anti-communist throughout his later life. In 1956 he and Richard Krygier founded the literary and cultural journal, Quadrant and was chief editor until 1963. From 1961 he was professor of English at the University of Tasmania. A portrait of McAuley by Jack Carington Smith won the 1963 Archibald prize. Death James McAuley died of cancer in 1976, at the age of 59, in Hobart. Bibliography Poetry The Darkening Ecliptic (with Harold Stewart, 1944) Melbourne: Angry Penguins literary journal Under Aldebaran (1946) Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. A Vision of Ceremony (1956) Sydney: Angus & Robertson. The Six Days of Creation (1963) An Australian Letters Publication. James McAuley (1963) 'Australian Poets Series' Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Captain Quiros (1964) Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Surprises of the Sun (1969) Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Collected Poems 1936–1970 (1971) Sydney : Angus & Robertson. A Map of Australian Verse (1975) Melbourne: Oxford University Press. Music Late at Night (1976) London; Sydney : Angus & Robertson. Time Given:poems 1970–1976 (1976) Canberra : Brindabella Press. A World of its own (1977) Canberra : Australian National University Press. Prose The End of Modernity: Essays on Literature, Art and Culture (1959) Sydney: Angus & Robertson. A Primer of English Versification (1966) Sydney: Sydney University Press. C. J. Brennan (1963) Melbourne: Oxford University Press. Edmund Spenser and George Eliot: A Critical Excursion (1963) University of Tasmania. Hobart (1964) Sydney: Current Affairs Bulletin. Versification: A Short Introduction (1966) Michigan State University Press. The Personal Element in Australian Poetry (1970) Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, Townsville. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. The Grammar of the Real: Selected Prose 1959–1974 (1975) Melbourne: Oxford University Press. The rhetoric of Australian poetry (1978) Surrey Hills: Wentworth Press. Editions and Selections Australian Poetry 1955 (1955) Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Generations: poetry from Chaucer to the present day (1969) Melbourne: Thomas Nelson. The Darkening Ecliptic (with Harold Stewart, 2017 reprint) Los Angeles: Green Integer, Hymns Hymns for the Year of Grace (n.d.) Sydney: Living Parish Series. We Offer Mass (n.d.) Sydney: Living Parish Series. Translation Song of Songs (1966) Darton: Longman & Todd. Footnotes References Peter Coleman, The Heart of James McAuley: Life and Work of the Australian Poet, Wildcat Press 1980. McCredden, Lyn, 1992, James McAuley, Oxford University Press Sources 1917 births 1976 deaths Australian Roman Catholics Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism Australian people of Irish descent University of Sydney alumni Australian military