Harry oldmeadow biography
- Kenneth "Harry" Oldmeadow (born 1947) is an Australian academic, author, editor and educator whose works focus on religion, tradition.
- Kenneth "Harry" Oldmeadow is an Australian academic, author, editor and educator whose works focus on religion, tradition, traditionalist writers and philosophy.
- Harry Oldmeadow was born in Melbourne in 1947.
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Harry Oldmeadow
"Burning Man: The Ascent of D.H. Lawrence" by Frances Wilson
News Weekly, 2022
Bloomsbury £12.99 pb, 488 pp. As both a writer and a literary celebrity D.H. Lawrence caused a tr... more Bloomsbury £12.99 pb, 488 pp. As both a writer and a literary celebrity D.H. Lawrence caused a tremendous splash in the years between the publication of Sons and Lovers (1913) and his death from tuberculosis at the age of forty-four (1930). Thereafter his reputation went into a tailspin until the appearance of D.H. Lawrence: Novelist (1955), in which F.R. Leavis, the most commanding English critic of his generation, declared that 'never was there a greater master of what is widely supposed to be the novelist's distinctive gift: the power to register, to evoke, life and manners with convincing vividness-evoke in the "created" living presence that compels us to recognise truth, strength and newness of the perception it records. To say that [Lawrence] exercises it incomparably over the whole social range doesn't suggest the full marvel.' The redoub
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Dr. Harry Oldmeadow
Harry Oldmeadow was born in India in 1947. His parents were Christian missionaries in India where he spent nine years of his childhood, developing an early interest in the civilizations of the East. He studied history, politics and literature at the Australian National University in Canberra, and after further studies at Sydney University he worked in the History Department at La Trobe University in Melbourne. In 1971 a Commonwealth Overseas Research Scholarship led to further studies at St. John’s College, Oxford, followed by travels in Europe, North Africa and the sub-continent. In 1981 he completed a Masters research degree in Religious Studies at Sydney University; the subject of his dissertation was Frithjof Schuon and the other principal traditionalist writers. This study, one of the earliest of its kind, was awarded a Sydney University Research Medal and later published by the Sri Lanka Institute of Traditional Studies as Traditionalism: Religion in the light of the Perennial Philosophy (Colombo, 2000). Under the auspices of this Institute, in 199
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Harry Oldmeadow
Australian academic
Kenneth "Harry" Oldmeadow (born 1947) is an Australian academic, author, editor and educator whose works focus on religion, tradition, traditionalist writers and philosophy.
Life and career
Oldmeadow was born in Melbourne in 1947. His parents were Christianmissionaries in India and he spent the first nine years of his childhood there and developed an early interest in the civilisations of the East.[1][2]
Oldmeadow studied history, politics and literature at the Australian National University, graduating in 1968 with First Class Honours in History,[3] and the University of Sydney, as well as working as a history tutor at La Trobe University in Melbourne. In 1971 a Commonwealth Overseas Research Scholarship allowed him to study at the University of Oxford, followed by extensive travel in Europe and North Africa.[1]
In 1980 he achieved a master's degree in religious studies at the University of Sydney where he completed a dissertation on the work of Frithjof Schuon and the other princip
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