The Tough Songs of John Berryman

August 10, 2018

John Berryman was arguably Jim Tulip’s favourite contemporary American poet. There was an opacity, a toughness in Berryman’s language that linked him perhaps with Australia’s Francis Webb, for whom Jim also had a passion. Jim wrote this essay in 1973 for the Southern Review published from the English Department, University of Adelaide: The Tough Songs … More The Tough Songs of John Berryman

Of Woman, Water, and the New Perseus: A Reading of Robert Lowell’s Selected Poems, 1976.

July 3, 2018

This seminal essay on Robert Lowell was written by Jim Tulip for the American Studies Down Under Conference and was published in Pacific Circle 4: Proceedings of the 6th and 7th Biennial Conferences of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association. Publisher ANZASA. Edited by Norman Harper and Elaine Barry. Of Woman Water James … More Of Woman, Water, and the New Perseus: A Reading of Robert Lowell’s Selected Poems, 1976.

Richard III: A Study of the Elizabethan Villain-Hero.

August 25, 2017

This thesis was written in 1961-62 as a PhD Dissertation for the Department of English, the University of Chicago. As a study of the villain-hero, so early in my career, it highlights a life-time absorption on my part in this central location of creative energy in English literature. It was in my view Shakespeare’s springboard … More Richard III: A Study of the Elizabethan Villain-Hero.

Australian Literature, Religion and Culture: an Educational Perspective.

May 26, 2017

James Tulip wrote this important essay as The Inaugural Victor J. Couch Lecture for the Catholic College of Education Sydney on December 6, 1988. James was at this time both an Associate Professor of English Literature and the Chairman of the Board of Studies in Divinity at the University of Sydney. Click on the link below … More Australian Literature, Religion and Culture: an Educational Perspective.