Writer's
Walk
A.D. Hope (born 1907)
... Yet there
are some like me turn gladly home
From the lush jungle ofmodern thought, tofind
The Arabian desert of the human mind,
Hoping, if still from the deserts the prophets come,
Such savage and scarlet as no green hills dare
Springs in that waste,some spirit which escapes
The learned doubt,the chatter of cultured apes
Which is called civilization over there.
"Australia"
(1939) |
Alec Derwent Hope's poems follow classical models,
adhering to traditional rhyme and metre. Extensive publications
after his first collection the Wandering Islands (1955)
also reveal Hope's capacities as witty essayist, satirist
and exponent of sensual love poetry.
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