Background
Adrian David Caesar was born on January 25, 1955, in Bowden, Cheshire, England. He immigrated to Australia in 1982 after completing his education. Adrian David Caesar is the son of Gordon and Ethel Irene (Young) Caesar.
1976
Reading, United Kingdom
Adrian David Caesar studied at the University of Reading in England in 1976 and got a bachelor's degree with honors. In 1981 Adrian David Caesar gained a Doctor of Philosophy at the same university.
1981
Sturt Rd, Bedford Park SA 5042,Australia
After graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of Reading, Adrian David Caesar took up a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Humanities at the Flinders University of South Australia in 1981.
(Kenneth Slessor has long been hailed as one of Australia'...)
Kenneth Slessor has long been hailed as one of Australia's finest and most important poets. But the terms of praise have often echoed Slessor's own aesthetic principles - that poetry transcends social and political issues; that poetry is imbued with magic; that poetry should deal with 'verities' assumed to be 'eternal'. Caesar approaches Slessor's work from a different angle, by re-reading and re-writing aspects of his biography he places both Slessor's life and his work in political and cultural context. He also demonstrates that the conflicts at work in Slessor's life and art have relevance to an understanding of Australian society in the first half of this century.
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1995
Adrian David Caesar was born on January 25, 1955, in Bowden, Cheshire, England. He immigrated to Australia in 1982 after completing his education. Adrian David Caesar is the son of Gordon and Ethel Irene (Young) Caesar.
Adrian David Caesar studied at the University of Reading in England in 1976 and got a bachelor's degree with honors. In 1981 Adrian David Caesar gained a Doctor of Philosophy at the same university. After graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of Reading, Adrian David Caesar took up a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Humanities at the Flinders University of South Australia in 1981.
Following a brief return to England, where Adrian David Caesar worked at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London, he returned to live in Australia in October 1984. From 1984 till 1987 Adrian Caesar worked as a tutor of the English Department at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia. From 1988 till 1992 Adrian was a lecturer of the English Department at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defense Force Academy in Canberra. From 1992 till 1999 Adrian Caesar worked as a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defense Force Academy in Canberra. In 1999 Adrian Caesar attained the position of associate professor.
Since leaving the University of New South Wales, Australian Defense Force Academy, Adrian Caesar has concentrated on his writing. Adrian Caesar has worked part-time teaching creative writing at the Australian National University. In 2005, Adrian Caesar was a creative writing fellow at Canberra Universities and spent time working with students at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defense Force Academy, and the Australian National University.
As well as a range of essays and articles published in books and journals both in Australia and overseas, Adrian David Caesar is the author of three books of literary and cultural criticism and an experimental 'non-fiction novel', The White, which won the Victorian Premier's Award for Non-Fiction in 2000 and the ACT Book of the Year in 2000. His novel, The Blessing, was published by Arcadia in 2015. He has also published five books of poetry, the latest of which is, Dark Cupboards New Rooms (Shoestring Press, 2014). High Wire (2005) was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Prize in 2007. His work has recently featured in The Best Australian Poems 2014 and Dazzled – an anthology of poems long-listed for the inaugural University of Canberra's Vice Chancellor's International Poetry Prize. Recognition of The White also led to his appearance as an ‘expert’ in a documentary film Surviving Extremes, made for the ABC by David Parer and Elizabeth Parer Cook, first broadcast in 2006.
(Kenneth Slessor has long been hailed as one of Australia'...)
1995(Whose side are you on? Where does your loyalty lie? Belfa...)
2015Caesar wants to demolish the ‘myth’ of Auden’s hegemony in the 1930s. Caesar reinvents MacSpaunday and rightly attacks Samuel Hynes’s reductive and tautological generational mythology for perpetuating the Movement premise that Neo-Romanticism was a 1940s reaction to the Auden-dominated 1930s. In his books, Caesar challenges well-established and accepted literary views and interpretations concerning the 1930s.
Caesar’s insight into the influence of social class on 1930s poetry arises from his discussion of poets’ backgrounds. He is not reductive about this, and it is partly through its subtlety that the case Caesar makes for the differences between the Auden group and others less socially elevated is a convincing one.
Caesar censures the Australian poet Kenneth Slessor for not being a 1990s Marxist-Feminist-New-Age-Sensitive male with the obligatory political correctness to appease the thought police of the new academe. Caesar has brought a new perspective to Slessor’s poetry in stressing the political nature of his subject.
Caesar has a humorous look at the evolution of his relationship with his partner, from trendy anarchism to a state of bourgeois conformity (‘married, mortgaged, monogamous’). Caesar writes his response to his young daughter’s opposition to his drinking, and in he reflects on leaving England for Australia at the age of thirty.
Adrian David Caesar married Claire Allert on December 6, 1984. They had children: Damian, Ellen-Marie.