{"product_id":"a-d-hope","title":"A.D. Hope","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first biography of A.D. Hope, one of Australia's greatest poets.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlec Derwent Hope (1907-2000) was one of Australia's most acclaimed poets. His first collection was not published until he was forty-eight years old, mainly because of its sexual nature and fears of censorship, but its release cemented his reputation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis biography recounts Hope's early life in rural Tasmania, the influences of his education at Sydney and Oxford universities, his notoriety as a critic and wit in the 1940s and '50s, and his career as a poet and academic, which placed him at the centre of Australian literary life for over fifty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on Hope's poetry, notebooks and surviving letters to friends, Susan Lever examines the many contrasts and contradictions of Hope's life: a polite, softly spoken man with a savage wit; a professor who refused to confine himself to the narrow specialisations of the academy; an emotionally complex intellectual who lived an outwardly conventional life in ordinary Australian suburbia; a poet responding to the major cultural shifts of the twentieth century and concluding that the contemporary poet's task was the renewal of tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In this highly engaging biography, Susan Lever provides invaluable insight into one of Australia's most important cultural figures, revealing A. D. Hope to be a poet of complexity, a generous promoter of other writers and an early advocate of Australian literary studies. This finely-researched book should generate much-needed fresh readings of Hope and his work.' -\u003cb\u003eAnn Vickery, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'... a book everyone interested in modern literature will want to read.' -\u003cb\u003eKevin Hart, author of \u003ci\u003ePoetry and Revelation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e' \u003ci\u003eA.D. Hope\u003c\/i\u003e  offers a study that is at once patient, exacting, and, at moments, quietly provocative.' -\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Unsensational and clear-eyed' -\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e' Lever's  clear-eyed biography is not blind to Hope's failings, but is also not unduly detained by them. Instead she provides us with the terms to understand the dignity and meaning of his life.' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e-Inside Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Lever writes candidly about Hope's strengths and weaknesses, but with a sensitivity that introduces the reader to the humanity of her subject.' -\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Association for Australian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Susan Lever","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516593602621,"sku":null,"price":35.14,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781760645885.jpg?v=1787561459","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/a-d-hope","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}