A.D. Hope

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A.D. Hope


Born
in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia
July 21, 1907

Died
July 13, 2000

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Alec Derwent Hope was educated at Sydney and Oxford Universities. He lectured at the University of Melbourne from 1945 to 1950 and eventually moved as foundation professor of English at Canberra University College, later the Australian National University, until 1969. He was instrumental in launching the first full university course in Australian literature.

At the age of 8 years, he wrote his first poem for birthday of his mother. His first collection of poems, The Wandering Islands, was published in 1955. He went on to produce more than a dozen volumes each of poetry and criticism, winning many literature prizes and honors in Australia and, as his reputation grew, internationally. He was awarded an OBE in 1972, was made an AO in 1981 and
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Average rating: 3.83 · 134 ratings · 10 reviews · 32 distinct works
Collected Poems

3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1966 — 8 editions
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Selected poems

3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1973 — 7 editions
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The cave and the spring: Es...

3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1965 — 2 editions
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Age of Reason

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1985
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Orpheus

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Dunciad Minor: An Heroick Poem

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The Wandering Islands

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New poems, 1965-1969

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1970 — 3 editions
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Hope Collected Poems

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Collected Poems 1930-1965

2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1966 — 10 editions
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