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A Voice From The Town
''A Voice from the Town'' is a poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. It was first published in '' The Bulletin'' magazine on 20 October 1894. In '' Up The Country,'' Lawson had criticised "The City Bushman" such as Banjo Paterson who tended to romanticise bush life. Paterson, in turn, accused Lawson of representing bush life as nothing but doom and gloom, famously ending with the line ''"For the bush will never suit you, and you'll never suit the bush."'' Wikisource article - ''In Defence of the Bush'' by Banjo Paterson This exchange sparked what is known as the Bulletin Debate, mainly between Paterson and Lawson, but also including Edward Dyson and Francis Kenna. This poem appeared two years after "The Poets of the Tomb" by Henry Lawson, the previous poem in the debate, and brought the exercise to an end. An author's note stated that it had been written in response to the 1871 poem "A Voice from the Bush", written by Mowbray Morris. Further publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Poets Of The Tomb
''The Poets of the Tomb'' is a poem by Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in '' The Bulletin'' magazine on 8 October 1892 in reply to fellow poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson's poem, ''In Answer to Various Bards.'' In '' Up The Country,'' Lawson had criticised "The City Bushman" such as Banjo Paterson who tended to romanticise bush life. Paterson, in turn, accused Lawson of representing bush life as nothing but doom and gloom, famously ending with the line ''"For the bush will never suit you, and you'll never suit the bush."'' This exchange sparked what is known as the Bulletin Debate, mainly between Paterson and Lawson, but also including Edward Dyson and Francis Kenna. This poem ended the first phase of the debate because, as Paterson observed in 1939, the poets "...ran out of material." Reception ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' said of the poem that it "...widened the discussion to include the role of literature in reformin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 Poems
Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States. * January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard, in Lexington, Massachusetts. * February 12 ** French anarchist Émile Henry sets off a bomb in a Paris café, killing one person and wounding twenty. ** The barque ''Elisabeth Rickmers'' of Bremerhaven is wrecked at Haurvig, Denmark, but all crew and passengers are saved. * February 15 ** In Korea, peasant unrest erupts in the Donghak Peasant Revolution, a massive revolt of followers of the Donghak movement. Both China and Japan send military forces, claiming to come to the ruling Joseon dynasty government's aid. ** At 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin dies of an accidental detonation of his own bomb, next ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Literature
Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early Western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies; as such, its recognised literary tradition begins with and is linked to the broader tradition of English literature. However, the narrative art of Australian writers has, since 1788, introduced the character of a new continent into literature—exploring such themes as Aboriginality, ''mateship'', egalitarianism, democracy, national identity, migration, Australia's unique location and geography, the complexities of urban living, and " the beauty and the terror" of life in the Australian bush. Overview Australian writers who have obtained international renown include the Nobel-winning author Patrick White, as well as authors Christina Stead, David Malouf, Peter Carey, Bradley Trevor Greive, Thomas Keneally, Colleen McCullough, Nevil Shute an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1894. Books * Rolf Boldrewood – ''A Modern Buccaneer'' * Guy Boothby – '' In Strange Company : A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas'' * Mary Gaunt – ''Dave's Sweetheart'' * E. W. Hornung ** ''The Boss of Taroomba'' ** ''The Unbidden Guest'' * George McIver – ''Neuroomia: A New Continent: A Manuscript Delivered from the Deep'' * Ethel Turner – ''Seven Little Australians'' Short stories * Louis Becke ** ''By Reef and Palm'' ** "A Dead Loss" * Ernest Favenc ** ''Tales of the Austral Tropics'' ** "An Unquiet Spirit" * Henry Lawson — "Bush Cats" * Louisa Lawson – "Manager and Muddler" Poetry * Jennings Carmichael – " A Woman's Mood" * Victor J. Daley – " A Vision of Youth" * Edward Dyson – " The Rescue" * George Essex Evans – " McCarthy's Brew: A Gulf Country Yarn" * Charles Augustus Flower – "A Thousand Miles Away" * Henry Lawson ** " Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1894. Events *February – Oscar Wilde's play '' Salome'' is first published in English, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. *February 15 – French anarchist Martial Bourdin accidentally kills himself while attempting to plant a bomb at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, a fictionalised version of which appears in Joseph Conrad's novel ''The Secret Agent'' ( 1907). *Early Spring – Mary Antin emigrates from White Russia (Belarus) to the United States with her mother. *April – ''The Yellow Book'' imprint, edited by Henry Harland, begins publication by John Lane and Elkin Mathews – The Bodley Head – in London. *April 21 – George Bernard Shaw's play ''Arms and the Man'' is premièred at the Avenue Theatre in London. *May – The Scottish writer William Sharp publishes ''Pharais'', his first novel under the pseudonym Fiona MacLeod. *June – The German novelist Hermann Hesse begins an appre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April — The Yellow Book first published (continues to 1897). * June 22 — Nina Davis' first published translation from medieval Hebrew poetry into English, of Abraham ibn Ezra's ''The Song of Chess'', appears in ''The Jewish Chronicle''. * November 8 — Robert Frost's poem "My Butterfly" is published on this date in the New York ''Independent'', marking the first sale of his poetry. He earns $15. * December 22 — Claude Debussy's symphonic poem ''Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune'', a free interpretation of Stéphane Mallarmé's 1876 poem, "L'après-midi d'un faune", is premièred in Paris. Works published in English Canada * Bliss Carman, ''Low Tide on Grand Pré'' (original edition, 1983)Web page titled "CONFEDERATION VOICES: Seven Canadian Poets By JOHN COLDWELL ADAMS"], at the Canadian Poetry website, retrieved August 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From Snowy River And Other Verses
''The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses'' (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1895, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Man from Snowy River (poem), The Man from Snowy River", "Clancy of the Overflow", "Saltbush Bill" and "The Man from Ironbark". It also contains the poet's first two poems that featured in The Bulletin Debate, a famous dispute in ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'' magazine from 1892-93 between Paterson and Henry Lawson. The collection includes 48 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources, along with a preface by Rolf Boldrewood, who defined the collection as "the best bush ballads written since the death of Lindsay Gordon". Contents * "The Man from Snowy River (poem), The Man from Snowy River" * "Wikisource: Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve, Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve : A Racing Rhyme" * "Clancy of the Overf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Kenna
Francis Kenna (21 September 1865 – 23 June 1932), was an Australian poet, journalist, and Labor Member of the Legislative Assembly in Queensland. He edited the "Brisbane Worker". He published Banjo, of the Overflow, a parody of Banjo Paterson's ''Clancy of the Overflow'' in 1892, as part of the Bulletin Debate about the true nature of life in the Australian bush. Like many of his poems (including those later published in ''Phases''), it was first published in the Sydney Bulletin. In 1907 he married Edith Elvira Stamp; they had two sons, Herbert and Vernon. Kenna died in 1932 and was buried in Lutwyche Cemetery Lutwyche Cemetery is a cemetery located at Kedron, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It opened in 1878 and saw its first burial in the same year. It is located at the corner of Gympie and Kitchener Roads, approximately ten kilometres north of B .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banjo Paterson
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, (17 February 18645 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include " Clancy of the Overflow" (1889), "The Man from Snowy River" (1890) and "Waltzing Matilda" (1895), regarded widely as Australia's unofficial national anthem. Early life Andrew Barton Paterson was born at the property "Narrambla", near Orange, New South Wales, the eldest son of Andrew Bogle Paterson, a Scottish immigrant from Lanarkshire, and Australian-born Rose Isabella Barton, related to the future first Prime Minister of Australia Edmund Barton. Paterson's family lived on the isolated Buckinbah Station near Yeoval NSW until he was five when his father lost his wool clip in a flood and was forced to sell up. When P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Dyson
Edward George Dyson (4 March 1865 – 22 August 1931), or 'Ted' Dyson, was an Australian journalist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He was the elder brother of illustrators Will Dyson (1880–1938) and Ambrose Dyson (1876–1913), with three sisters also of artistic and literary praise. Dyson wrote under several – some say many – nom-de-plumes, including Silas Snell. In his day, the period of Australia's federation, the poet and writer was "ranked very closely to Australia's greatest short-story writer, Henry Lawson". With Lawson known as the "swagman poet", William Henry Ogilvie, Ogilvie the "horseman poet", Dyson was the "mining poet". Although known as a freelance writer, he was also considered part of ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'' writer group. Early life He was born at Morrisons, Victoria, Morrison's Diggings near Ballarat in March 1865. His father, George Dyson, arrived in Australia in 1852 and after working on various dig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulletin Debate
The "''Bulletin'' Debate" was a well-publicised dispute in '' The Bulletin'' magazine between two of Australia's best known writers and poets, Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. The debate took place via a series of poems about the merits of living in the Australian "bush", published from 1892 to 1893. Origin At the time, '' The Bulletin'' was a popular and influential publication, and often supported the typical national self-image held by many Australians, sometimes termed the "bush legend."Lawson and ''The Bulletin'' Henry Lawson: Australian Writer, Australian Government Culture and Recreation Portal, Accessed on 7 November 2006 Many Australian writers and poets, such as |
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