Record ID:
36078391 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50028459
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1907-07-21
  • Cooma, N.S.W.
Death:
  • 2000-07-13
  • Canberra (A.C.T.)
Associated with:
  • Tasmania
Occupations:
  • Poets Teachers Professors Literary critics
Used for:
  • Hope, Alec Derwent, 1907-2000
  • Pseudonym Inkwell, Anthony
  • Хоуп, Алек Дервент
  • Khoup, Alek Dervent
Notes:
  • A.D. Hope was born in Cooma in 1907, the son of a Presbyterian minister. After a period working as a schoolteacher and lecturer, he became professor of English at Canberra University College, later part of the ANU, and taught there until 1967, when he became professor emeritus. He first came to public attention in the 1940s as a controversial literary critic, although he had been publishing poetry since the 1930s. His first collection of poems, The Wandering Islands, was not published until 1955, possibly because of its erotic content, but by then his reputation was assured. His second volume of poetry, Collected Poems 1930-1965, was published in 1966 and expanded in 1972. His later poems appeared in The Age of Reason (1985) and Orpheus (1991). He died in 2000 in Canberra.
  • Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
  • Antechinus, 1981 title page (A. D. Hope)
  • AustLit, viewed 8 April 2016 (A. D. Hope (a.k.a. Alec Derwent Hope) Born: 21 Jul 1907 Cooma, New South Wales ; Died: 13 Jul 2000 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Gender: Male. Biography: The son of a Presbyterian Minister, A. D. Hope was educated at home and at schools in Tasmania and New South Wales before matriculating to Sydney University where he studied English and philosophy. Hope won a scholarship to University College, Oxford, returning to Sydney in 1932 with a disappointing third-class degree. In Sydney he trained as a teacher, beginning his long career as an educator ... In 1938 he was appointed lecturer at the Sydney Teachers' College. During the 1940s Hope broadcast regularly on the Australian Broadcasting Commission's Children's Session. Using the pseudonym Anthony Inkwell, Hope conducted the literary section in the Argonaut's Club segment ... After retiring from teaching in 1967, Hope was made Professor Emeritus and travelled and lectured in Europe and America. His final volume of poetry appeared in 1992) http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A16935
  • Australian National Library hdg. (Hope, A. D. (Alec Derwent), 1907-2000)
  • Eternity can wait, 2011 title page (Alek Dervent Khoup)
  • The wandering islands, 1955.
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)240664
  • (AuCNL)114808
  • abv02507872
  • 000001084597
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC GU DLC OCoLC DLC InU DLC ANL TSL
Authentication code:
  • anuc