The legacy of leading Australian poet A. D. Hope to world literature is unquestionable, comprising eleven books of poetry, seven collections of critical essays, and two plays. His writing, compelling ...
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In the following essay, Suchting delineates the “frame of reference” in Hope's verse.
Every significant artist has a fundamental axis about which his work revolves, a basic per...
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In the following essay, Wright offers a thematic and stylistic analysis of Hope's poetry.
As a poet, McAuley, in spite of his austerity, has sometimes seemed too gracefully nostalgic to pres...
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In the following review of A Late Picking, Zwicky discusses Hope's reputation as a poet in Australia and elucidates the central themes in his verse.
The man alone digging his bones a hole; T...
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In the following essay, which was originally published in 1988, Steele examines the theme of voyage in Hope's poetry, focusing on “the character of his quest.”
Bad luck to The ...
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In the following essay, Martin asserts that although Hope is perceived as a conservative, almost archaic poet, he is in his own way an unorthodox and unique Australian poet.
Such savage and scarlet...
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In the following essay, Wallace-Crabbe argues that Hope's poetry resists easy categorizations and investigates the poet's relationship to symbolism.
Attempts to characterise A. D. Hop...
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In the following essay, which was originally published in 1992, Brooks reevaluates Hope's reputation as a poet through an examination of his collections Orpheus and The Age of Reason.
I have...
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In the following essay, Bowers contends that the defining characteristics of Hope's poetry—particularly his reliance on conventional forms and his rejection of modernism—have now ...
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In the following essay, Maver considers the links between the poetry of Hope and Charles Baudelaire.
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The Australian poet A. D. Hope never felt the particular need to stress the degree of ‘...
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In the following essay, Pons explores the erotic and chauvinistic dimensions of Hope's verse.
I was then your music and you mine
(‘Vivaldi, Bird and Angel’)
Among Austra...
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A(lec) D(erwent) Hope
Critical Essay by W. A. Suchting
