Leslie Holdsworth Allen

Leslie Holdsworth Allen (21 June 1879 – 5 January 1964) was an Australian academic and poet. He was Professor of English at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, the senior lecturer of English and Latin at Canberra University College and chairman of the Literature Censorship Board.

Early life Allen was born in Maryborough, Victoria, the second son of William Allen, a Congregational minister and the older brother of Sir Carleton Allen and his wife Martha Jane, née Holdsworth. He later attended the University of Sydney and the University of Leipzig (PhD).

Academic career In 1911, Allen was appointed as a senior lecturer in classics and English at Sydney Teachers College.

Honours The Haydon-Allen Lecture Theatre is in part a memorial to his work at the Australian National University.

Publications Gods and Wood-Things (1913) Phaedra: and Other Poems (1921) Araby: and Other Poems (1924) Patria (1941)

Selected works To our beloved dead (1922)