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Bush Ballads And Galloping Rhymes
''Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes'' (1870) is the second poetry collection by Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. It was also the last collection to be published during the poet's lifetime appearing only the day before the author's suicide. The original collection included only 16 poems, though later editions expanded on this list. Most of the poems were published in the Australian newspapers ''Colonial Monthly'' and ''The Australasian''. Contents * " A Dedication" * " The Sick Stockrider" * "The Swimmer" * "From the Wreck" * "No Name" * "Wolf and Hound" * "De Te" * "How We Beat the Favourite" * "From The Road to Avernus" * "Doubtful Dreams" * "The Rhyme of Joyous Garde" * " Thora's Song" * "The Three Friends" * "A Song of Autumn" * "The Romance of Britomarte" * "Laudamus" Critical reception On its original publication a reviewer in ''The Argus'', aware of the poet's recent death, wrote: "Mr. Gordon was a man of cultivated and refined mind, and of more than average litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon (19 October 1833 – 24 June 1870) was a British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician. He was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and according to his contemporary, writer Marcus Clarke, Gordon's work represented "the beginnings of a national school of Australian poetry". Early life Though commonly cited as having been born in Fayal in the Azores, where Captain Gordon had brought his wife for the sake of her health, Gordon's birthplace was the small English village of Charlton Kings near Cheltenham, where he was baptised. He was the son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon and Harriet Gordon, his first cousin, both of whom were descended from Adam Gordon of Auchindoun, of the ballad "Edom o Gordon". Captain Gordon had retired from the Bengal cavalry and taught Hindustani. His mother's family had owned slaves in the British West Indies until the abolition of slavery in the 1830s, and had received significant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardback
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Paperback
A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with adhesive, glue rather than stitch (textile arts), stitches or Staple (fastener), staples. In contrast, hardcover (hardback) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, leather, paper, or plastic. Inexpensive books bound in paper have existed since at least the 19th century in such forms as pamphlets, yellow-backs, yellowbacks, dime novels, and airport novels. Modern paperbacks can be differentiated from one another by size. In the United States, there are "mass-market paperbacks" and larger, more durable "trade paperbacks". In the United Kingdom, there are A-format, B-format, and the largest C-format sizes. Paperback editions of books are issued when a publisher decides to release a book in a low-cost format. Lower-quality paper, glued (rather than stapled or sewn) bindings, and the lack of a hard cover may contribute to the lower cost of paperbacks. Paperb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Spray And Smoke Drift
''Sea Spray and Smoke Drift'' (1867) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. It was released in hardback by George Robertson in 1867. The collection includes 27 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources. Contents * "Podas Okus" * "Gone" * "Unshaven" * "Ye Wearie Wayfarer" * "Borrow'd Plumes" * "Pastor Cum" * "A Legend of Madrid" * "Fauconshawe" * "Rippling Water" * "Cui Bono" * "Bellona" * "The Song of the Surf" * "Whisperings in Wattle Boughs" * "Confiteor" * "Sunlight on the Sea" * "Delilah" * "From Lightning and Tempest" * "Wormwood and Nightshade" * "Ars Longa" * "The Last Leap" * "Quare Fatigasti" * Hippodromania ** " Visions in the Smoke" ** "The Fields of Coleraine" ** "Craedat Judaeus Apella" ** "Banker's Dream" ** "Ex Fumo Dare Lucem" * "The Roll of the Kettledrum; or, The Lay of the Last Charger" Critical reception Reviewing a reissue of the collection in 1909 ''The Australasian'' found: "If Gordon is the poet of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dedication
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sick Stockrider (poem)
''The Sick Stockrider'' is a poem by Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. It was first published in ''Colonial Monthly'' magazine in January 1870, although the magazine was dated December 1869. It was later in the poet's second and last poetry collection ''Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes'' (1870). Analysis "The Evening Journal" (Adelaide) called the poem "...the best piece Mr. Gordon ever wrote..." after its publication in ''Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes''. ''The Oxford History of Australian Literature'' stated that "The ballad of the dying stockman, with its creed of mateship, its laconic acceptance in true bush style of whatever life and death may offer, led Marcus Clarke to assert that in Gordon's work lay the beginnings of a national school of Australian poetry."''The Oxford History of Australian Literature'', Second Edition, p696 Further publications * ''An Anthology of Australian Verse'' edited by Bertram Stevens (1907) * ''The Sick Stockrider and Other Poems'' by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1870. Books * James Lester Burke — ''The Adventures of Martin Cash'' * Marcus Clarke — ''For the Term of His Natural Life'' * B. L. Farjeon — ''Joshua Marvel'' * J. R. Houlding ** ''The Farm, the City and the Sea'' ** ''Rural and City Life, or, The Fortunes of the Stubble Family'' Short stories * Marcus Clarke — "Squatters of the Past and Present : 'Arcades Ambo'" * B. L. Farjeon — "In Australian Wilds" * Mary Fortune ** "The Hart Murder" ** "My Lodger" ** "The Spider and the Fly" Poetry * Mary Hannay Foott — " Ave Caesar! Te Morituri Salutant!" * Adam Lindsay Gordon ** ''Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes'' ** " The Sick Stockrider" ** " Thora's Song" * Henry Kendall ** " Bush Lyrics : No. II : Camped by the Creek" ** " The Late A. L. Gordon : In Memoriam" * Francis MacNamara — "The Ballad of Martin Cash" Essays * Henry Kendall — "The Holy Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Awards Works published United Kingdom * Edward Lear, ''Nonsense Songs, stories, Botany, and Alphabets'' (published this year, although the book states "1871"; see also ''Book of Nonsense'' 1846, ''More Nonsense'' 1872, ''Laughable Lyrics'' 1877)Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * William Morris, ''The Earthly Paradise'', Part 4 (Parts 1 and 2 1868, Part 3 1869) * Arthur O'Shaughnessy, ''An Epic of Women, and Other Poems'' * Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ''Poems'', including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life", exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave * James Joseph Sylvester, a mathematician, publishes ''The Laws of Verse'' * Alfred Lord Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King'' with eight Idylls in the order Tennyson wanted at this point (see also ''Idylls of the King'' 1859, 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 Books
Year 187 ( CLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Quintius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 940 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 187 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Septimius Severus marries Julia Domna (age 17), a Syrian princess, at Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon). She is the youngest daughter of high-priest Julius Bassianus – a descendant of the Royal House of Emesa. Her elder sister is Julia Maesa. * Clodius Albinus defeats the Chatti, a highly organized German tribe that controlled the area that includes the Black Forest. By topic Religion * Olympianus succeeds Pertinax as bishop of Byzantium (until 198). Births * Cao Pi, Chinese emperor of the Cao Wei state (d. 226) * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
