Henry Kendall: The Man and the Myths by Michael Ackland
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Henry Kendall: The Man and the Myths by Michael Ackland

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780522846508
Author: Michael Ackland
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 1995
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 365 pages
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly at spine. Light foxing to top foredge. Interior and binding are still very good. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and at spine. Small tear to top edge now repaired with book tape.

Henry Kendall has often been called our finest colonial poet, yet the details of his life are little known in modern Australia.

Kendall's was a life that lends itself to biography and to fiction. His own accounts of it frequently appear, at best to be lacking in credibility, at worst to contain calculated lies. As a result, some of the most basic facts about the poet's life have remained in dispute.

In writing this first full-scale account of Kendall's life and times, Michael Ackland has used a store of previously unpublished information to separate the real man from the myths which have come to surround him. He replaces the popular image of Kendall as a melancholy poet of the Australian bush with a fascinatingly complex portrait of a robust, enigmatic and many-sided character whose life registered the full impact of family tragedies, religious crises, drunkenness and poverty.

Kendall's diverse career included periods as a journalist, public servant, timber merchant and colonial man of letters. Michael Ackland also reveals Kendall as an honest doubter, a lively humorist and a man deeply interested in politics, rural affairs and ecological issues.

A good hater as well as a staunch friend, Kendall produced some of the most memorable and vitriolic writing in the decades following the discovery of gold, a period whose central characters included such figures as Henry Parkes, Charles Harpur, 'Orion' Horne, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Daniel Denichy.

This book is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of colonial Australian literature, history and politics and a long-overdue reassessment of a man who represents an abiding part of our cultural heritage. (book flap)

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