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Biography of Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australia's 'National Poet', examines the life of the man and the myths surrounding him.

Scottish aristocrat, rebellious youth, expert horseman, club-man, MP and poet-beneath the image of rake and hell-raiser, Adam Lindsay Gordon remained a conservative, frustrated with his failure to achieve the success he had expected from life. He finished his passionate life as dramatically as he had lived it, in a mixture of glory and outrage. A flawed hero, he was acclaimed as Australia's National Poet in 1933.

Geoffrey Hutton examines this tragic and romantic character as a man, and a poet against his culture and his times and the process of his later apotheosis.

'He wrote imperfectly in Australia those poems that in England he might have made perfect.'-Oscar Wilde



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  • ISBN-13: 9780522847086
  • ISBN-10: 0522847080
  • Publisher: Melbourne University
  • Publish Date: March 2024
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.66 pounds
  • Page Count: 344

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