Christopher Brennan

Christopher Brennan was an Australian poet and scholar.
He was born in Sydney in 1870 and died there in 1932.
Brennan studied classics at the University of Sydney.
He won a scholarship to study in Berlin, where he met his future wife.
Brennan returned to Australia and worked as a librarian and a lecturer.
He published several volumes of poetry, including Poems: 1913.
Brennan was a controversial figure, but he is now regarded as one of the most important Australian poets of his generation.