L.H. Allen (b. Maryborough, Victoria,
Australia, 21
June 1879; d. Moruya, New South Wales, Australia, 5 or 6 January 1964)
Leslie Holdsworth Allen was the son of the Reverend William
Allen (1847-1919) and his wife Martha Jane Holdsworth. William Allen had been born in England but
immigrated to Australia with his family when young, later becoming well-known
as Congregational Minister of Melbourne and Petersham, N.S.W. Leslie was the
second of five or six children, and was educated at Newington College, Sydney,
Sydney University (B.A. 1904), and Leipzig University (Ph.D. 1907). He spent
most of his life in Australian academia, at the Royal
Military College
at Duntroon from 1918 to 1930, and at Canberra
University College
(now the Australian
National University)
from 1931 on. He married Dora Bain (1880-1932) in Chatswood on 22 December 1915.
They had two children, one daughter, and one son who died young.
His first book was Gods
and Wood-Things (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1913), which is a
collection of seven poems and seven Hellenistic vignettes of fauns, centaurs
and naiads. He translated two of Friedrich Hebbel’s Three Plays (1914) for the Everyman’s Library. Further poems were
collected in Phaedra and Other Poems
(London, 1921), Araby and Other Poems (Sydney, 1924)
and Patria (Melbourne, 1941). 
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