Vincent Thomas Buckley (8 July 1925 – 12 November 1988)[1] was an Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic.
On 13 December 1943, Buckley enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force, where he served as a recorder.
[2] In 1955, Buckley received a two-year scholarship to St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, in the United Kingdom to study the moral criticism of Matthew Arnold, F. R. Leavis and T. S. Eliot.
In 1966, Buckley published the collection Arcady and Other Places and in 1967 held a personal Chair in Poetry at the university.
Buckley was also heavily involved in Catholic intellectual debate during the period of the Cold War and the emergence in Australia of the Democratic Labour Party.
[6] Buckley's critical writing includes volumes on poetry, the novelist Henry Handel Richardson, and Leonard French's Campion paintings.