Alec Derwent Hope ( July 21 1907 - July 13 2000 ) was an Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant. He was also a critic, teacher and academic. Sourced Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind: He took her in his arms and there and then...
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 in its originality and passion, and rigorous in its...
Alec Derwent Hope (July 21 1907 - July 13 2000) was an Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant. He was also a critic, teacher and academic. Hope was born in Cooma, New South Wales, and educated partly at home and in Tasmania. He...
A HUNDRED years after the innovations of free verse, poets and critics still accuse each other of reaction and betrayal as if civilisation itself depended upon the way poets come to the end of the line, writes Ruth Morse [further to the obituary of...
LAST SATURDAY afternoon in the House-with 37 members absent-abortion foes and other members unhappy with the District government joined forces to reject the D.C. budget conference report. The vote was 211-185. Despite this action, House and Senate conferees have decided to try again to pass...
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 come back into vogue in literary circles.
