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In search of a poet.(Book Review)

Publication: Quadrant
Publication Date: 01-JUN-05
Format: Online - approximately 1082 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Victor J. Daley." A Life, by Frank Molloy; Crossing Press (Sydney), 2004, $24.

THE POET Victor Daley was famous in Bulletin circles in late nineteenth century. Since then his reputation has faded gradually, but he is still featured in most anthologies of Australian poetry, and two of...

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...his books, At Dawn & Dusk and Wine and Roses, are still commonly seen in second-hand bookshops.

Frank Molloy, Senior Lecturer in English at the Wagga Wagga campus of Charles Sturt University, has been ferreting out various details of Daley's life for some years in order to resurrect interest in the poet. Some chapters in this book were given as talks at literature conferences. Now this comprehensive biography, the first on Daley, has appeared.

Molloy demonstrates that the true story of Daley's life has been up till now obscured. His friends provided a distorted version of his output. Most of them knew him only in the 1890s, and did not...

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