Les Murray : A Life in Progress

Alexander, Peter F.

ISBN 10: 0195535014 / ISBN 13: 9780195535013

Published by Oxford University Press, Australia, 2000

About this Item

First edition, first impression 2000 near fine hardback, page edges and page margins browned, in a near fine dust wrapper. Protected by clear removable archival covering. Owner's adress label at the top of front free endpaper. 391 pages with index. Illustrations. Bibliography.

Seller Inventory # 0019751

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Les Murray : A Life in Progress
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Australia
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195535014
• ISBN 13: 9780195535013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

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.

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.