Kenneth Slessor
Kenneth Slessor, one of Australia’s most prominent twentieth-century poets, celebrated the beauty of the Australian landscape and emphasized a respect for nature throughout his long career. Stylistically, his work is marked by the use of irony, creative rhyme patterns, and themes of melancholy, dissatisfaction, and nihilism. The literary critic Terry Sturm has described Slessor as the "first authentically modernist voice" among Australian poets.
Slessor was born in New South Wales, Australia...