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3 unusual facts about Adam Lindsay Gordon


A Song of Autumn

"A Song of Autumn" is a poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon set to music by Edward Elgar in 1892.

Richard Henry Horne

Along with such literary figures as Henry Kendall, Adam Lindsay Gordon, George Gordon McCrae and Marcus Clarke he was a member of the Yorick Club where members met and discussed literature.

Horne appears to have had as little sense of discipline as Adam Lindsay Gordon showed at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and like him was asked to leave.


Shakes versus Shav

Shaw then asserts that Adam Lindsay Gordon has outdone Shakespeare's verse, quoting the lines "The beetle booms adown the glooms/And bumps among the clumps" (in fact a garbled version of lines by James Whitcomb Riley).


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