Vincent Buckley has exerted a profound influence in Australia with his poems and poetic theory being the center of scholars’ discussion.In his poems and poetic practice,he holds on textual ontology,opposing any standard beyond literature.Therefore,he holds a negative attitude toward Arnold’s standard of morality,Eliot’s standard of religion and Australian nationalists’ standard of nation.In rejecting these standards,Buckley makes clear relationship among poem,morality,religion and nation,establi...