sentences:  The years working for "The Bulletin" were highly productive, both in terms of personal output and for his contribution to Australia's literary life.Goodwin writes that he "had a profound influence on the publishing of Australian poetry in the 1940s and early 1950s".Goodwin goes on to write that "More eclectic than he is often given credit for, he did have a distaste for rhetoric and declamation and a preference for the Audenesque air of jaunty reasonableness" and that "he was sceptical about large religious affirmation".