{"product_id":"ad-hope-susan-lever-9781760645885","title":"A.D. Hope: A Life","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe first biography of A.D. Hope, one of Australia's greatest poets.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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, but its release cemented his reputation as the pre-eminent Australian poet of his time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Lever\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1760645885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781760645885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e La Trobe University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.02w x 0.72d","brand":"Susan Lever","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48454400934143,"sku":"9781760645885","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aef61b36-5dcf-4576-9894-18eca0d72c8e.jpg?v=1777306001","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ad-hope-susan-lever-9781760645885","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}