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Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon · Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
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A collection of verse by Adam Lindsay Gordon, a nineteenth-century Australian poet known for ballads and horse-riding themes, with a preface by Marcus Clarke. Suitable for readers of colonial Australian literature and those studying nineteenth-century English-language poetry.
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon was a British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician. He was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and according to his contemporary, writer Marcus Clarke, Gordon's work represented "the beginnings of a national school of Australian poetry".
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