{"product_id":"ad-hope-by-susan-lever-9781760645885","title":"A.D. Hope","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first biography of A.D. Hope, one of Australia's greatest poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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. However, its release cemented his reputation as the pre-eminent Australian poet of his time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288340447468,"sku":"9781760645885","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781760645885.jpg?v=1770542508","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/ad-hope-by-susan-lever-9781760645885","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}