y separately published work icon The Mortal and the Marble single work   novel  
  • Author:agent Geoffrey Dutton http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/dutton-geoffrey
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 The Mortal and the Marble
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y separately published work icon Out in the Open : An Autobiography Geoffrey Dutton , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1994 Z91836 1994 single work autobiography '"I was born in a house of books."
'So begins this long-awaited autobiography, in which Geoffrey Dutton embarks on an honest, controversial and brilliantly entertaining journey through seventy crowded years.
'His unusual childhood was dominated by the lavish lives of his wealthy parents who collected houses as well as books, although young Geoffrey was despatched to boarding school at a young age while his mother traveled abroad to enjoy a flirtation with the European aristocracy.
'His real education came later, in wartime. I've joined the air force, and as well as embarking on various amorous adventures, his risky low flying antics had him promptly locked up in the "boob".
'During the war he also began publishing poetry and was closely associated with the modernist movement in art and literature. Later I studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where CS Lewis was one of his tutors.
'Since then Geoffrey Dutton has become renowned as a poet, critic, biographer, publisher and editor. In this masterpiece of literary autobiography he traces many journeys, from his sojourn in Cold War crazy Kansas to a wild and wonderful visit to Russia as a hapless victim of Intourist. Other travels take him through the Pacific, Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean.
'There are many intimate portraits of his sometimes volatile friends, among them the feisty Zhenya Yevtushenko, fellow flier David Campbell, Russell Drysdale, Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, the precocious Robert Hughes, Ken Slessor, and Max Harris, eccentric survivor of "Ern Malley " Here too is the full story of the celebrated, quarter-century friendship with Patrick White which ended so bitterly.' (Publication summary)
Novel of Melbourne 1951 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 14 March vol. 72 no. 3709 1951; (p. 2)
— Review of The Mortal and the Marble Geoffrey Dutton , 1950 single work novel
Untitled Brian Elliott , 1951 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 10 no. 4 1951; (p. 413-414)
— Review of The Mortal and the Marble Geoffrey Dutton , 1950 single work novel
Untitled Brian Elliott , 1951 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 10 no. 4 1951; (p. 413-414)
— Review of The Mortal and the Marble Geoffrey Dutton , 1950 single work novel
Novel of Melbourne 1951 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 14 March vol. 72 no. 3709 1951; (p. 2)
— Review of The Mortal and the Marble Geoffrey Dutton , 1950 single work novel
y separately published work icon Out in the Open : An Autobiography Geoffrey Dutton , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1994 Z91836 1994 single work autobiography '"I was born in a house of books."
'So begins this long-awaited autobiography, in which Geoffrey Dutton embarks on an honest, controversial and brilliantly entertaining journey through seventy crowded years.
'His unusual childhood was dominated by the lavish lives of his wealthy parents who collected houses as well as books, although young Geoffrey was despatched to boarding school at a young age while his mother traveled abroad to enjoy a flirtation with the European aristocracy.
'His real education came later, in wartime. I've joined the air force, and as well as embarking on various amorous adventures, his risky low flying antics had him promptly locked up in the "boob".
'During the war he also began publishing poetry and was closely associated with the modernist movement in art and literature. Later I studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where CS Lewis was one of his tutors.
'Since then Geoffrey Dutton has become renowned as a poet, critic, biographer, publisher and editor. In this masterpiece of literary autobiography he traces many journeys, from his sojourn in Cold War crazy Kansas to a wild and wonderful visit to Russia as a hapless victim of Intourist. Other travels take him through the Pacific, Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean.
'There are many intimate portraits of his sometimes volatile friends, among them the feisty Zhenya Yevtushenko, fellow flier David Campbell, Russell Drysdale, Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, the precocious Robert Hughes, Ken Slessor, and Max Harris, eccentric survivor of "Ern Malley " Here too is the full story of the celebrated, quarter-century friendship with Patrick White which ended so bitterly.' (Publication summary)
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