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He Still Wears the Ruff and Doublet
This article about Australian lyric poet Hugh Raymond McCrae (1876-1958) is titled ‘He still wears the Ruff and Doublet’ in response to a claim supposedly made by Kenneth Slessor (quoted in the article) that McCrae was ‘perpetually haunted by…
Tags: Adam Lindsay Gordon, Alfred Hill (1869-1960), Australian poet, Camden, doublet, Elizabeth II, Hugh Raymond McCrae (1876-1958), international appeal, Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971), line-drawings, medieval clothing, medieval lyricism, New South Wales, Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), O.B.E., pastoral poetry, poetry, royal investiture, ruff, sketches, Sydney