Sydney Jephcott

Sydney Jephcott (November 30, 1874 - July 3, 1951) was an Australian poet.

Writing
Ken Stewart, Australian Dictionary of Biography: "Bardic and meditative, Jephcott's verse pursues ethical and metaphysical speculations in a mood of solitary, sensuous loftiness frequently evoked in relation to mountainous Australian landscape. Despite poetic overcrowding and crudity, at its best it is urgent and vital and, in the tradition of Charles Harpur and Francis Adams, seeks to open 'new avenues of sensation to … Truth and Beauty' in order to cultivate public awareness of 'the vital Ideal in our national existence'."