Poems Of Adam Lindsay Gordon With A Life Of The Poet Gordon, Adam Lindsay; Robb, Frank Maldon (Ed.) Australian,Literature,Poetry

Light tanning on back and front inside covers. Name inscribed on inside front cover page. Pages, binding, spine, cover - clean and firm. Dust jacket has scuffing wear, and bumping/small tears at edges. Oxford Standard Authors Edition. Reprinted 1950. Edited, with Introduction, Notes and Appendixes by Frank Maldon Robb. Includes B&W Illustrated Frontispiece portrait Of Adam Lindsay Gordon. Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician, born in the Azores. The son of an English army captain, Gordon went to school in Cheltenham, before leaving for Australia shortly before his 20th birthday. 'This edition of the poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon contains a life of the poet by F. M. Robbs (124 pages), which traces his debt to English, literature, and in particular to Byron, Swinburne, and Browning.' (From dust jacket flyleaf)