Les Murray A Life in Progress

by Alexander, Peter F.

• ISBN13: 9780195535013
• ISBN10: 0195535014
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the first biography of one of Australia's finest poets--a famed lyricist, polyglot, and polemicist. Alexander draws on extensive interviews with Murray to reveal how this complex man endured the harshest and most anti-intellectual of childhoods to develop into one of the most famous poets writing in English today.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Les Murray's Family Tree	xiii
Map: Les Murray's country	xiv
Prelude	1	(4)
The Beginning, 1848-1938	5	(13)
Childhood, 1938-51	18	(16)
Death of the Family, 1951-54	34	(13)
Taree High, 1955-56	47	(14)
Sydney University, 1957-58	61	(10)
Trying Again, 1958-60	71	(13)
In the Pit, 1960-62	84	(16)
Halt and Turn, 1962	100	(10)
Thyrsis and Corydon, 1962-65	110	(15)
The Antipodes, 1965-68	125	(16)
The Vernacular Republic, 1968-71	141	(12)
The Test of Faith, 1971-74	153	(8)
The Battle of the Books, 1974-76	161	(18)
Public and Private, 1977-81	179	(18)
Anguish & Robbery, 1978-92	197	(9)
Stealing the Funeral, 1979-81	206	(9)
Autism and Isolation, 1981-87	215	(12)
The Power of the Dog, 1987-89	227	(9)
Fighting the Black Dog, 1989-92	236	(13)
Becoming a Name, 1992-94	249	(13)
Killing the Black Dog, 1994-96	262	(14)
Forgiving the Victim, 1996-98	276	(11)
Fredy Murray, 1993-	287	(8)
Epilogue	295	(1)
Notes	296	(50)
Select Bibliography	346	(34)
Index	380