Adam Lindsay Gordon: Man and Myth

by Geoffrey Hutton

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780522847086
Publisher:	Melbourne University Publishing
Publication date:	06/02/1992
Series:	Melbourne University Press Australian Lives Series
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.13(h) x 0.67(d)