{"product_id":"2026200018314-secondhand-the-poetical-works-of-adam-lindsay-gordon","title":"The Poetical Works Of Adam Lindsay Gordon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\n\nGordon 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 \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50948315414747,"sku":"2026200018314-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a04d4deb-03ed-477f-868c-b2f750d2c26f.png?v=1793104620","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200018314-secondhand-the-poetical-works-of-adam-lindsay-gordon","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}