Jock: A Life Story of John Shaw Nielson
John Shaw Neilson has been venerated as one of the finest lyrists in all English literature. Legends have been woven around the man with the unique gift, the genius who gave us the best poetry ever written in Australia. In this unconventional, compellingly readable study, Cliff Hanna puts to rest many of the myths that have grown up around the man his family called Jock. An authoritative biography drawing on all the known material about Neilson, Jock wears its scholarship lightly. Hanna...
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Hanna has written extensively about Australian poet Neilson (1872- 1942) and here offers a biography based on those studies and on his familiarity with Neilson's stomping ground in Victoria and his family. He includes photographs that have not been seen outside the family before. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
