If you wanted to see these later books you could get them on inter-library loan, even a local suburban library can do this for you, they can access a database (forgotten the name of it, a long time since I have been a librarian) and the book/s will be sent, that way you could at least see it/them. Hope is certainly well known in Australia and I often see copies of his books in second hand stores, Judith Wright is our most popular dead poet and Les Murray the most famous living poet. I haven't read much Hope but I would say he is more an academic poet, not so popular ( and when I say popular I mean amongst the tiny educated 'elite' that read poetry). Our most famous/loved modern poem is 'Five Bells' by Kenneth Slessor.
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