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For Australia And Other Poems
''For Australia and Other Poems'' is a collection of poems by the Australian writer Henry Lawson, published by Standard Publishing, Melbourne, in 1913. It includes a version of his famous poem "Freedom on the Wallaby". The collection consists of 62 poems from a variety of sources. Contents * "For Australia" * "The Day Before I Die" * "The Spirits of Our Fathers" * "For All the Land to See" * "Our Mistress and Our Queen" * "The Gathering of the Brown-Eyed" * "Who'll Wear the Beaten Colours?" * "Macleay Street and Red Rock Lane" * "The Wantaritencant" * "The Motor Car" * "Freedom on the Wallaby" * "Give Yourself a Show" * "'39'" * "That Great Waiting Silence" * "Above Crow's Nest (Sydney)" * "To Be Amused" * "Australia's Peril : The Warning" * "The Federal City" * "'O7' (Cypher Seven)" * "Every Man Should Have a Rifle" * "What Have We All Forgotten?" * "Since the Cities are the Cities" * "To Victor Daley" * "The Bards Who Lived at Manly" * "The Empty Glass" * "The Soul of a Poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...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] |
1913 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1913. Novels * James Francis Dwyer — ''The Spotted Panther'' * Vera Dwyer — ''With Beating Wings'' * Norman Lindsay — '' A Curate in Bohemia'' * Louise Mack ** ''Attraction'' ** ''The Marriage of Edward'' * Dorothea Mackellar — ''Outlaw's Luck'' * Ambrose Pratt ** ''The Golden Kangaroo'' ** ''Wolaroi's Cup'' * Louis Stone — ''Betty Wayside'' * Ethel Turner — ''The Secret of the Sea'' * Lilian Turner — ''Stairways to the Stars'' Short stories * John Arthur Barry — ''South Sea Shipmates'' * Louis Becke — ''Bully Hayes: Buccaneer, and Other Stories'' * Henry Lawson ** "Grandfather's Courtship" ** ''Triangles of Life and Other Stories'' Poetry * Arthur H. Adams — ''The Collected Verses of Arthur H. Adams'' * Christopher Brennan — ''Poems (1913)'' * John Le Gay Brereton — " The Robe of Grass" * Ada Cambridge — ''The Hand in the Dark and Othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freedom On The Wallaby
"Freedom on the Wallaby", Henry Lawson's well known poem, was written as a comment on the 1891 Australian shearers' strike and published by William Lane in ''the Worker'' in Brisbane, 16 May 1891. The last two stanzas of the poem were read out by Frederick Brentnall MP on 15 July 1891 in the Queensland Legislative Council during a 'Vote of Thanks' to the armed police who broke up the Barcaldine strike camp. There were calls in the chamber for Lawson's arrest for sedition. Lawson wrote a bitter rejoinder to Brentnall, ''The Vote of Thanks Debate''. The "Rebel flag" referred to in the poem is the Eureka Flag that was first raised at the Eureka Stockade in 1854, above the Shearers' strike camp in 1891 and carried on the first Australian May Day May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. Festivities may also be held the night before, known as Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothian Books
Hachette () is a French publisher. Founded in 1826 by Louis Hachette as Brédif, the company later became L. Hachette et Compagnie, Librairie Hachette, Hachette SA and Hachette Livre in France. After acquiring an Australian publisher, Hachette Australia was created; in the UK it became Hachette UK, and its expansion into the United States became Hachette Book Group USA. History France It was founded in 1826 by Louis Hachette as Brédif, a bookshop and publishing company. It became L. Hachette et Compagnie on 1 January 1846, Librairie Hachette in 1919, and Hachette SA in 1977. It was acquired by the Lagardère Group in 1981. In 1992, the publishing assets of Hachette SA were grouped into a subsidiary called Hachette Livre (), the flagship imprint of Lagardère Publishing. Hachette has its headquarters in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. In 1996, it merged with the Hatier group. In 2004, Hachette acquired dictionary publisher Éditions Larousse. International expansion In 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry By Henry Lawson
Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the '' Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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