A Song Of The Republic
"A Song of the Republic" (1887) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Lawson. It was the author's first published poem. It was originally published in ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'' on 1 October 1887, and subsequently reprinted in other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. Critical reception Writing an overview of the author's career in 1919, Bertram Stevens (critic), Bertram Stevens said of the poem: "Monarchs were the traditional symbols of tyranny, so much of the unrest of the time expressed itself as republicanism; the average respectable citizen, by the way, regarded socialism, republicanism, communism, and anarchism as the same thing and all anathema. Lawson set forth the aspirations of many of the submerged in a fiery 'Song of the Republic'. ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' states that "A Song of the Republic" is "a stirring appeal to the 'Sons of the South' (the original title) to bring about a ...
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Henry Lawson
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". A vocal nationalist and republican, Lawson regularly contributed to '' The Bulletin'', and many of his works helped popularise the Australian vernacular in fiction. He wrote prolifically into the 1890s, after which his output declined, in part due to struggles with alcoholism and mental illness. At times destitute, he spent periods in Darlinghurst Gaol and psychiatric institutions. After he died in 1922 following a cerebral haemorrhage, Lawson became the first Australian writer to be granted a state funeral. He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson. Family and early life Henry Lawson was born 17 June 1867 in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of ...
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