A.D. Hope’s Latter-Day Ulysses: ‘The End of a Journey’ and the Literary Background

Abstract

Attention to the detail, the overall structure and the literary background of 'The End of a Journey', the first work in Hope's Collected Poems, clarifies the tone and feeling of the poem, its sense of disillusionment, alienation and waste; it reveals more clearly what criticism has tended to assert about its ironic mode; and it throws light on Hope's handling of myth, while suggesting something of the inner logic of the Hope-canon.

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Published 1 October 1982 in Volume 10 No. 4. Subjects: Greek myths, Odysseus / Ulysses, A.D. Hope.

Cite as: Wieland, James. ‘A.D. Hope’s Latter-Day Ulysses: ‘The End of a Journey’ and the Literary Background.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 10, no. 4, 1982, doi: 10.20314/als.9b72f92617.