biography
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Gordon, Adam Lindsay
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| male
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| lived:
| (1833–70)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Fayal in the Azores. He was raised and educated in England. A wild and reckless youth, his father sent him to South Australia, where he became a horsebreaker and amateur steeplechaser. During the next few years he moved several times, published three volumes of poetry without success, suffered a series of mishaps, and finally committed suicide. Much of his best work is collected in Sea Spray and Smoke Drift (1867) and Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870). He is recognized as the first poet to write in an Australian style, and is the only Australian poet honoured in the poets' corner of Westminster Abbey. |
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