Adam Lindsay Gordon: The man and the myth - Hardcover

Hutton, Geoffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571109217 ISBN 13: 9780571109210

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1978

Synopsis

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0571109217
• ISBN 13: 9780571109210
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 217