A. D. Hope

Alec Derwent Hope ( born July 21, 1907 in Cooma, New South Wales, † July 13, 2000 in Canberra) was an Australian poet and essayist, who was known for his satirical perspective. He was also a literary critic, teacher and academic.

Hope was educated at home and in Tasmania. He attended the University of Sydney and received a scholarship to the University of Oxford. After his return to Australia in 1931, he completed a clerkship, and drove for some time then. He worked as a psychologist at the New South Wales Department of Labour and Industry and as a lecturer in education and English at Sydney Teachers College ( 1937-44 ).

From 1945-1950 he was a lecturer at the University of Melbourne and then became the first professor of English at the newly founded University of Canberra ( later Australian National University ). He retained his chair until his retirement in 1967.

Although he experienced his first publications as a poet at an early age - The Wandering Islands ( 1955) was his first anthology, most manuscripts of his early works were destroyed in the fire. His models were WH Auden and Algernon Swinburne; he was self-taught and had the talent to push his compatriots on the head.

1972 Hope of the Order of the British Empire was awarded and he received many other awards.

Works

  • The Wandering Islands (1955 )
  • Poems (1960 )
  • The cave and the spring (1965 ) Essays
  • Collected poems (1966 )
  • New poems (1965-1969)
  • Dunciad Minor (1970 ) Satire
  • A midsummer eve 's dream (1970 )
  • Native companions (1974 ),
  • A late picking (1975)
  • The pack of Autolycus (1978 ) Essays
  • The new Cratylus (1979 ) Poetics
  • A book of answers (1978 )
  • The drifting continent (1979 ) poems
  • Antechinus (1981),
  • The tragical history of Dr Faustus (1982 ),
  • The age of reason (1985 ) poems
  • Ladies from the sea (1987 ) Drama
  • Orpheus (1991 ) poems
  • Chance encounters memoirs
  • Author
  • Literature ( English )
  • Australian literature
  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire
  • Companion of the Order of Australia
  • Australian
  • Born 1907
  • Died in 2000
  • Man
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