The Quest for GraceSecond part of the late Manning Clark's autobiography which began with TThe Puzzles of Childhood' (1989). By the author of the celebrated six-volume TA History of Australia', this book traces Clark's journey of self-discovery to Oxford and Europe and his return to Australia. |
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... Ross Wilson , a resident in the ' Vatican ' at Trinity College , had introduced me to the poetry of T. S. Eliot . ' The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ' made an immediate appeal . I remember another Trinity student , Michael Thwaites ...
... Ross Wilson , a resident in the ' Vatican ' at Trinity College , had introduced me to the poetry of T. S. Eliot . ' The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ' made an immediate appeal . I remember another Trinity student , Michael Thwaites ...
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... Ross Wilson rushing on to his destruction , or the huge waste of his vast talents as a writer . Not long after the scene in Trinity College I asked him how he , a candidate for holy orders , reconciled his sexual behaviour with the ...
... Ross Wilson rushing on to his destruction , or the huge waste of his vast talents as a writer . Not long after the scene in Trinity College I asked him how he , a candidate for holy orders , reconciled his sexual behaviour with the ...
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... Ross Wilson and Dorian Le Gallienne , the composer , another man who knew all about ' Gram- mar and that sort of thing ' . Dick was a brilliant economist who had worked with Professor Copland in government services and at the ...
... Ross Wilson and Dorian Le Gallienne , the composer , another man who knew all about ' Gram- mar and that sort of thing ' . Dick was a brilliant economist who had worked with Professor Copland in government services and at the ...
Contents
The Quest Begins | 1 |
Becoming a Melbourne Boy | 29 |
An Australian in the Land of Holy Wonders | 48 |
Copyright | |
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