KENNETH W PORTER 1905-1981

American historian and poet was a Fulbright lecturer in American history at Melbourne University in 1954. While there, he studied the bush ballads and later wrote about the ‘missing’ bushranger ballad of Johnny troy, at that time only known in the United States.

 

Porter, K. W. (1965). “Johnny Troy”: A “Lost” Australian Bushranger Ballad in the United States. Meanjin Quarterly, 24(2), 227–238. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.965759253841134

 

Porter’s papers and a biography in the Archives and Manuscripts section of the New York Public Library at https://archives.nypl.org/scm/20684

 

Also a Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Porter_(poet)

 

See also Stephan Williams