Major new voices of the 1930s and 1940s

Abstract

R. D. FitzGerald (1902–), a surveyor by profession, and the son and grandson of surveyors, grew up in Sydney in a family that valued its Irish ancestry. In the early 1920s he associated with Jack Lindsay, Kenneth Slessor and others in the group that produced Vision (1923) and its associated anthology, Poetry in Australia (1923). He contributed poems to both publications. His humanist, ‘vitalist’ ideas seem, however, to have been acquired independently before he began this association.