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GORDON, ADAM LINDSAY (1833—1870)

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GORDON, See also:ADAM See also:LINDSAY (1833—1870) , Australian poet, was See also:born at See also:Fayal, in the See also:Azores, in 1833, the son of a retired See also:Indian officer who taught Hindustani at See also:Cheltenham See also:College. See also:Young Gordon was educated there and at Merton College, See also:Oxford, but a youthful indiscretion led to his being sent in 1853 to See also:South See also:Australia, where he joined the mounted See also:police. He then became a horsebreaker, but on his See also:father's See also:death he inherited a See also:fortune and obtained a seat in the See also:House of See also:Assembly. At this See also:time he had the reputation of being the best non-professional See also:steeplechase rider in the See also:colony. In 1867 he moved to See also:Victoria and set up a See also:livery See also:stable at See also:Ballarat. Two volumes of poems, See also:Sea Spray and See also:Smoke See also:Drift and Ashlaroth, were published in this See also:year, and two years later he gave up his business and settled at New See also:Brighton, near See also:Melbourne. A second See also:volume of See also:poetry, See also:Bush See also:Ballads and Galloping Rhymes, appeared in 187o. It brought him more praise than emolument, and, thoroughly discouraged by his failure to make See also:good his claim to some See also:property in See also:Scotland to which he believed himself entitled, he committed See also:suicide on the 24th of See also:June 1870. His reputation See also:rose after his death, and he became the best known and most widely popular of Australian poets. Much of Gordon's poetry might have been written in See also:England; when, however, it is really See also:local, it is vividly so; his genuine feeling frequently kindles into See also:passion; his versification is always elastic and sonorous, but sometimes too reminiscent of See also:Swinburne. His compositions are almost entirely lyrical, and their merit is usually in proportion to the degree in which they partake of the See also:character of the ballad. Gordon's poems were collected and published in 188o with a See also:biographical introduction by See also:Marcus See also:Clarke.

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