“John Blight”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

词条

John Blight

释义

Biography
Bibliography
References

{{for|the archaeological artist|John Thomas Blight}}{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}{{Use Australian English|date=May 2015}}John Blight (30 July 1913 – 1995) was an Australian poet of Cornish origin, his ancestors having arrived in South Australia on the Lisander, in 1851.^[1] In the 1987 recording John Blight, he describes his Cornish background and its influence on his style.^[2]

Biography

Born in Unley, South Australia, on 30 July 1913, Blight was educated at Brisbane State High School.^[3] During the Great Depression in Australia he tramped the Queensland outback looking for work.^[4] During the 1930s he undertook correspondence studies and attained his Chartered Accountancy Diploma, whereby in 1939 he found paid employment in Bundaberg, Queensland.

Following his wartime years spent in Canberra as an Inspector with the Government's Prices Regulatory Department, he became a part-owner of timber mills in the Gympie region. He took up full-time writing in 1973. In 1987 he was awarded the Order Of Australia Medal (AM) for his contribution to Literature and Education.

Blight received numerous awards, including the Dame Mary Gilmore Medal, Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, The Patrick White Literary Award and the Christopher Brennan Award. He died on 12 May 1995 in Brisbane, Queensland, being survived by his wife, Beverley Madeline D'Arcy-Irvine and their two daughters, Katrina and Robyn.^[5]

Bibliography

The Old Pianist: Poems (1945)
The Two Suns Met (1954)
A Beachcomber's Diary (1964)
My Beachcombing Days: ninety sea sonnets (1968)
Hart : Poems (1975)

Selected Poems 1939-1975 (1976)
Pageantry for a Lost Empire (1978)
The New City Poems (1980)
Holiday Sea Sonnets (1985)
Selected Poems 1939-1990 (1992)

References

1. ^http://www.alanrichards.org/ogb13.htm
2. ^"John Blight", WorldCat.
3. ^Beatrice Davis (ed.), Australian Verse: An Illustrated Treasury, State Library of New South Wales Press, 1996.
4. ^William Wilde, Australian Poets and their Works, Oxford University Press, 1996.
5. ^Online biographical material and sample 14-line poem, from OldPoetry.com.

随便看

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。