Alec Derwent Hope

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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 trained at home and in Tasmania . He attended the University of Sydney and received a scholarship to Oxford University . After returning to Australia in 1931 , he did a legal clerkship and drifted there for some time. He worked as a psychologist with the New South Wales Department of Labor and Industry and as a lecturer in education and English at Sydney Teachers College (1937-44).

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

Although he saw his first publications as a poet at a young age - The Wandering Islands ( 1955 ) was his first anthology, most of the manuscripts of his early works were destroyed in the fire. His role models were WH Auden and Algernon Swinburne ; he was very self-taught and had the talent to offend his countrymen.

In 1972 Hope was awarded the Order of the British Empire and received many other awards. In 1989 he was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

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 memoir

Secondary literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary Members: AD Hope. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hope, Alec Derwent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian poet and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Cooma, New South Wales , Australia
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 2000
Place of death Canberra , Australia