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Adam Lindsay Gordon

The Man and the Myth

By: Geoffrey Hutton

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Paperback | 8 March 2024 | Edition Number 1

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220 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.52

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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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