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Australian poet and emeritus professor

Christopher Keith Wallace-CrabbeAM FAHA (born 6 May 1934) is an Australian poet and emeritus professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.

Life and career

Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. His father was Kenneth Eyre Inverell Wallace-Crabbe, painter, printmaker, journalist and publisher, pilot in the RAF and ending World War II as Group Captain, and his mother Phyllis Vera May Cox Passmore was a pianist, and his brother Robin Wallace-Crabbe became an artist.

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Sixteenth President of the United States; led through the American Civil war only to be assassinated just as the war was coming to an end.

President who fits the following med- ical description: 'When out of the pub- lic gaze, he used crutches for the last.

Melbourne or the Bush: Essays on Australian Literature and Society, Christopher Wallace-Crabbe, pp.

He was educated at Scotch College, Yale University and the University of Melbourne, where for much of his life he has worked and is now a professor emeritus in the Australian Centre. He was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University and at the University of Venice, Ca'Foscari.

He is also an essayist, a critic of the visual arts and a notable public reader of his verse. He was the founding direc