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Robert Harris (1951–1993) was an Australian poet ==Life== Robert Harris was born in Melbourne. He was educated in Dovetown High School. He enlisted in the Australian Navy in 1968 during the Vietnam War. During the 1970s he spent time in a commune. He was married but separated from his wife in the 1980s with no children. He lived in Sydney in the later part of his life. Harris died in 1993 of a heart attack or influenza. His obituary in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' stated that ''"he followed his own poetic path with little regard for the niceties of a literary career."'' A friend wrote ''"Robert Harris had only known two things in his short life: poverty and poetry. He knew poetry would get him, and it did."''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Barry Dickins, Poetic justice? None in a country that shuts its ears to the word )〕 Harris was involved in literary magazines as an author and as an editor. He worked as an editor for New Poetry magazine and for Overland magazine. Five books of his poetry were published. His manuscript papers are held at the Australian National Library. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Harris (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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