{"product_id":"a-d-hope-a-life","title":"A.D. Hope: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first biography of A.D. Hope, one of Australia's greatest poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 as the pre-eminent Australian poet of his time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Hope's poetry, notebooks and surviving letters to friends, biographer 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 intellectual with an emotionally complex inner life who lived in an outwardly conventional way 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Trobe University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46120065466539,"sku":"9781760645885","price":37.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/3732\/9579\/files\/9781760645885.jpg?v=1769742949","url":"https:\/\/notjustbooks.com.au\/products\/a-d-hope-a-life","provider":"Not Just Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}