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Synopsis
This is the first biography of one of Australia's finest poets--a famed lyricist, polyglot, and polemicist. Alexander draws on extensive interviews with Murray to reveal how this complex man endured the harshest and most anti-intellectual of childhoods to develop into one of the most famous poets writing in English today.
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About the Author
Peter F. Alexander was educated at the universities of the Witwatersrand, Leeds and Cambridge. He has written biographies of Roy Campbell, William Plomer, and Alan Paton (all published by OUP). He has also edited a selection of the verse of Roy Campbell for OUP, and has collaborated in a
four-volume edition of all Campbell's writing. He is currently Professor of English at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Review
"Useful...[Alexander] cast[s] a keen biographer's eye over his subject's childhood.... He develops an incisive and sympathetic portrait of a poet in the making."--Times Literary Supplement
"Shrewd, measured, meticulously researched."--New York Review of Books
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0195535014
- ISBN 13 9780195535013
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages392
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