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Alec Derwent Hope AC OBE FAHA (21 July 1907 – 13 July 2000) was an Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant. He was also a critic, teacher and academic. He was referred to in an American journal as "the 20th century's greatest 18th-century poet".
Alec Derwent Hope (1907–2000), poet, teacher, and literary journalist, was born on 21 July 1907 at Cooma, New South Wales, eldest of five children of Percival Hope, Presbyterian minister, and his schoolteacher wife Florence Ellen, née Scotford, both New South Wales-born.
A.D. Hope (born July 21, 1907, Cooma, New South Wales, Australia—died July 13, 2000, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) was an Australian poet who is best known for his elegies and satires.
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It was during his tenure of a lectureship at Sydney Teachers' College that Hope first met fellow poet James McAuley, joint perpetrator with Harold Stewart of the notorious Ern Malley hoax in 1944, which for Hope presented almost "a religious war against the corrupters of poesy", as Ann McCulloch has suggested.
Alec Derwent Hope was born in Cooma, NSW on 21 July 1907 and spent most of his childhood in rural New South Wales and Tasmania. He was educated at the University of Sydney and Oxford University.
Alec Derwent Hope: Born: 21 July, 1907 Cooma, New South Wales, Australia. Died: 13 July, 2000 (aged 92) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Religious Influence: Presbyterian
6 giu 2024 · This series encompasses the entire range of Hope's writing, including published and unpublished poetry and prose, lectures, articles, speeches, broadcasts and reviews. The papers include manuscript and typescript drafts, publishers' proofs, publications, notes and correspondence.
