The Poetical Works Of Adam Lindsay Gordon
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
From the sun-scorched plains of colonial Australia to the fog-shrouded racetracks of England, the verse of Adam Lindsay Gordon burns with a restless energy that captured the spirit of a rugged, untamed age. The Poetical Works of Adam Lindsay Gordon gathers the full breadth of his celebrated canon — from the galloping cadences of Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes to the brooding philosophical meditations of Ashtaroth — presenting a poet who rode as hard as he wrote, and who transformed the Australian bush into an arena of moral reckoning, physical courage, and existential longing. Gordon occupies a singular place in the literary heritage of Australia, widely regarded as the nation's first poet of national identity, and this collected edition, published by the venerable Ward, Lock & Co. of London and Melbourne, stands as a testament to his enduring transatlantic reputation. His verse is muscular and melodic, indebted to Byron and Browning yet unmistakably his own — charged with a fatalistic stoicism that mirrors a life lived at the edge. To read Gordon is to hear the hoofbeats of a vanishing frontier and to wonder what drives a man to seek beauty and oblivion in equal measure.
Author: Adam Lindsay Gordon
Format: Hardback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
From the sun-scorched plains of colonial Australia to the fog-shrouded racetracks of England, the verse of Adam Lindsay Gordon burns with a restless energy that captured the spirit of a rugged, untamed age. The Poetical Works of Adam Lindsay Gordon gathers the full breadth of his celebrated canon — from the galloping cadences of Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes to the brooding philosophical meditations of Ashtaroth — presenting a poet who rode as hard as he wrote, and who transformed the Australian bush into an arena of moral reckoning, physical courage, and existential longing. Gordon occupies a singular place in the literary heritage of Australia, widely regarded as the nation's first poet of national identity, and this collected edition, published by the venerable Ward, Lock & Co. of London and Melbourne, stands as a testament to his enduring transatlantic reputation. His verse is muscular and melodic, indebted to Byron and Browning yet unmistakably his own — charged with a fatalistic stoicism that mirrors a life lived at the edge. To read Gordon is to hear the hoofbeats of a vanishing frontier and to wonder what drives a man to seek beauty and oblivion in equal measure.