Adrian Mitchell (2) (1941–)
Auteur de Dampier's Monkey: The South Seas voyages of William Dampier
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Adrian Mitchell, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de Adrian Mitchell
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1941
- Sexe
- male
- Études
- University of Queensland (MA, PhD)
University of Adelaide (BA) - Professions
- associate professor
- Organisations
- University of Sydney
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 29
- Popularité
- #460,290
- Évaluation
- 3.0
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 170
- Langues
- 6
She was not the only one wanting to possess his memory...supporting the romanticised idea of the poet: there are all kinds of memorialisations in NSW where you can even visit the so-called Henry Kendall Cottage in West Gosford — which was not actually his cottage at all. It belonged to the Fagan family who (according to the website):
Indeed they did. But generous as they were, it would probably surprise them to find their pioneer cottage renamed as it has been!
The Fagans took Henry in and restored him to health after he was released from an asylum, where he had been committed in 1873, filthy, starving and having led the life of a Bohemian and to have plunged deeper and deeper into debauchery. Estranged from his long-suffering wife and children, he was supposed to have taken up work as an editor in Grafton, but got drunk at Newcastle en route and the steamer sailed on without him. With no money or possessions he set off back to Sydney on foot.
But even the story of how Kendall the tramp came to meet with the Fagans isn't clear. Nor is it clear how they recognised Australia's leading poet down on his luck, when newspapers didn't feature photographs at that time. However it came about, there is something Biblical about their kindness. Mitchell alludes to Matthew 25:35:
It was not to last. Nothing good seemed to last for Kendall.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2020/10/07/where-shadows-have-fallen-the-descent-of-hen...… (plus d'informations)