{"product_id":"9780522847086","title":"Adam Lindsay Gordon","description":"Author: Geoffrey Hutton\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780522847086\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Melbourne University Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Jun 1992\u003cbr\u003ePages: 220\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScottish 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n 'He wrote imperfectly in Australia those poems that in England he might have made perfect.'–Oscar Wilde","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47241195683998,"sku":"HPC-9780522847086","price":52.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780522847086.jpg?v=1780360533","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780522847086","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}