A Man’s Life and a Woman’s Death: — Arthur H. Adams’s Female Writer of Genius

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  • MacDonald Pairman Jackson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v2i1.597

Abstract

Poet, novelist, playwright, librettist, journalist, and one-time literary editor of Sydney's Bulletin, New Zealander Arthur H. Adams (1872-1936) had a career as writer that earned him some considerable reputation in his time. His enduring monument has been the fine late-Romantic elegiac poem `The Dwellings of our Dead', which has appeared in Oxford and Penguin anthologies and carries a strong emotional charge, mainly by way of its plangent music. It was probably written in a semi-trance while Adams was convalescing in Chefoo (or Chi-fu) in China from an almost fatal bout of enteric fever. He himself considered it his best – if, as I believe, this is the poem that in his novel A Man's Life he refers to as composed in such circumstances.

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MacDonald Pairman Jackson

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Published

1999-06-06