Enid Derham

Enid Derham (24 March 1882 – 13 November 1941, age 59) was an Australian poet and academic.

with first class final honours in classics in 1903, was awarded the Shakespeare scholarship in 1904 and subsequently studied at Oxford University.

[1] In a review for The Herald, Archibald Strong compared her work favourably with that of Louis Esson, Dorothea Mackellar and Christopher Brennan.

He wrote of the "true and original singing quality and its scholarly and critical finish" as being rare in Australian poetry and noted that her poem "Cras Nobis" was "easily the best Australian contribution" to the Australasian Students' Song Book, published in 1911 by George Robertson.

[4][5] Melbourne University Press released a posthumous anthology of her best work called Poems in 1958 which re-established her reputation as a poet.