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Published 31-08-1991
ISBN 9780522846959
Pages 188
Subjects Biography: general
Imprint MUP

Henry Lawson

The Man and the Legend

Manning Clark

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Published 31-08-1991
ISBN 9780522846959
Pages 188
Subjects Biography: general
Imprint MUP

Manning Clark intimately reconstructs Lawson’s agonising, and ultimately unsuccessful search for fulfilment of genius and happiness.

Henry Lawson was a deeply divided man. He was a soul burdened with an insatiable craving for love, a combative spirit with impossible hopes that mankind might sort itself out. Yet, he openly loathed huge sections of humanity and sang the blessings of war. Manning Clark intimately reconstructs Lawson's agonising, and ultimately unsuccessful search for fulfilment of genius and happiness. The great irony is that Lawson's poetry inspired the feeling that life was worth living.

Manning Clark was born in Sydney in 1915 and educated at the University of Melbourne and at Balliol College, Oxford. He was a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne, then Professor of History at the Australian National University. He later became ANU's first Professor of Australian History. In 1975 he was made a Companion…