乔治·戈登·麦克雷

乔治·戈登·麦克雷

乔治·戈登·麦克雷的照片
  • 时间1833 - 1927
  • 的地方
  • 国家澳大利亚

诗人的传记

乔治·戈登·麦克雷于1833年5月29日出生在苏格兰利斯附近。他的父亲安德鲁·默里森·麦克雷是爱丁堡的一位作家,他的母亲是艺术家乔治亚娜·亨特利·麦克雷。他的父亲于1838年乘船前往澳大利亚,乔治·戈登·麦克雷与母亲于1841年3月1日抵达墨尔本。他们在离墨尔本大约两英里的阿伯茨福德住了一段时间,然后搬到了亚瑟的座位,他父亲在那里占有了一块地。在这里,乔治接受了私人教师约翰·麦克卢尔(John McClure)的教育。麦克卢尔是一位文学硕士,他在家里待了九年。17岁时,麦克雷作为见习者加入了一个勘测队,险些被卷入“黑色星期四”的大火中。在一个或两个办公室获得商业经验后,他于1854年1月1日被任命为政府部门的一个职位。他在军中工作了39年,最终成为副书记官长,并在1893年达到年龄限制后退休,领取退休金。麦克雷开始为《澳大拉西亚报》和其他报纸投稿,并逐渐结识了他那个时代的所有文学家,包括戈登、肯德尔、霍恩和克拉克。其中一些人是他在墨尔本伯克街德怀特的二手书店遇到的,正是德怀特在1867年出版了麦克雷的两本小书,《Balladeädro的故事》和《Mämba》,都是根据土著传说写成的。他曾希望出版第三本以卡拉库克(Karakorok)土著为背景的书,但该书仍以手稿形式存在。 He became very friendly with Adam Lindsay Gordon, who praised his verse, and Henry Kendal, whom he was able to help during his troubled days in Melbourne. In 1873 appeared a long poem in blank verse, The Man in the Iron Mask, from which Longfellow selected some lines for an anthology of sea poems. McCrae was always fond of the sea and by saving up his leave was enabled to visit Great Britain, and to make two voyages to the Seychelles in which islands he became very interested. He did much preliminary work for a history of the Seychelles which was never completed, and began to work on a novel, John Rous, a badly arranged but readable story of the reign of Queen Anne, which was not published until 1918. He also wrote a poem, Don César, in ottava rima, as long as Don Juan, several extracts from which appeared in the Bulletin. In 1915 a small selection of his poems was published, The Fleet and Convoy and Other Verses. This little volume is full of misprints and scarcely represents the poet at his best. An opportunity was lost to include some of McCrae's more distinguished work, such as "A Rosebud from the Garden of the Taj", now buried in old papers and journals. He died at Hawthorn, Melbourne, on 15 August 1927, in his ninety-fifth year, his mind still quite unimpaired. Of few men has it been so truly said that he was universally loved and regretted. He married in July 1871, Augusta Helen Brown, who died before him. He was survived by a son and three daughters. Another son was killed in the 1914-18 war.