A.D. Hope called a Patrick White novel ‘verbal sludge’. New books celebrate these literary rivals
- Written by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
A.D. Hope (left) and Patrick White.Brandl & Schlesinger/Wikimedia CommonsA.D. Hope and Patrick White are towering figures of 20th-century Australian culture. Few cast larger literary shadows over the postwar period. White, with his dizzying, monumental novels and Nobel prize, holds pride of place. But Hope, as a critic, poet and academic,...
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