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The Old Bush Road
"The Old Bush Road" (1892) (aka ("An Old Bush Road") is a poem by Australian poet Jennings Carmichael. It was originally published in '' The Australasian'' on 23 April 1892 and subsequently reprinted in ''Poems'', the author's sole poetry collection, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. Critical reception While reviewing the author's poetry collection, ''Poems'', a writer in ''The Australasian'' observed that Jennings had made the subject of "charmingly poetical" all her own: "It deals with the Australian bush as seen in the tender light of a loving memory that goes back to girlhood's days, and amid the city's growl and grime catches faint breaths of the gum forest at evening, hears the magpies fluting their tumultuous welcome to the dawn, or follows in fancy every winding of the 'old bush road' as it passes round the clumps of wattles, or over the creek where the bell-birds haunt, or skirts the marsh where the mosses grow in their re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennings Carmichael
Jennings Carmichael (24 February 1867 – 9 February 1904) was an Australian poet and nurse. Life Grace Elizabeth Jennings Carmichael was born on 24 February 1867 at Ballarat, Victoria. The daughter of Archibald Carmichael, a miner from Perthshire, Scotland and Margaret Jennings, née Clark, from Cornwall. She was educated at Melbourne, while still a child went to live on a station at Orbost, and grew up close to the bush she came to love so much. She went to Melbourne to be trained as a nurse at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. Carmichael joined the Buonarottii Club before 1887, and was a member of the Austral Salon in the 1890s giving a public lecture on "The Spirit of the Bush" in September 1895 at the Masonic Hall in Melbourne with Alfred Deakin as chairman. In 1891, Carmichael published a small volume of prose sketches, ''Hospital Children''. Having qualified as a nurse she obtained a position on a station near Geelong, and subsequently married Francis Mullis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australasian
The ''Australasian Post'', commonly called the ''Aussie Post'', was Australia's longest-running weekly picture magazine. History and profile Its origins are traceable to Saturday, 3 January 1857, when the first issue of ''Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle'' (probably best known for Tom Wills's famous 1858 Australian rules football letter) was released. The weekly, which was produced by Charles Frederic Somerton in Melbourne, was one of several Bell's Life publications based on the format of ''Bell's Life in London'', a Sydney version having been published since 1845. On 1 October 1864, the weekly newspaper ''The Australasian'' was launched in Melbourne, Victoria by the proprietors of ''The Argus (Melbourne), The Argus''. It supplanted three unprofitable ''Argus'' publications: ''The Weekly Argus'', ''The Examiner (Melbourne), The Examiner'', and ''The Yeoman'', and contained features of all three. A competitor, ''The Age'', gloated that as it was printed on coarse h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poems (Carmichael Collection)
''Poems'' (1895) is a collection of poems by Australian poet Jennings Carmichael. It was published in hardback by Longmans, Green, and Co in London, and Melville, Mullen and Slade in Melbourne in 1895. The anthology includes 90 poems by the author. Contents Critical reception A reviewer in '' The Australasian'' newspaper stated: "She never probes deeply; her verses reveal no spirit wrestling with inscrutable problems, those dark mysteries of time and eternity that underlie the passing of busy days and restful nights. Her work is sweet and true in its own round, a narrow round no doubt, but in it lie the subjects that the average reader of poetry finds most readily suggestive of emotion...But while it is true that Miss Carmichael is not too deep, nor too passionate, nor to remote from human sympathies to be readily and without an effort understood, she yet has gifts of her own without which her popularity would be impossible." In The Herald the reviewer noted: "This is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Anthology Of Australian Verse
''An Anthology of Australian Verse'' (1907) is an anthology of poems edited by Australian critic Bertram Stevens (critic), Bertram Stevens. The editor notes in his introduction that the book is "A selection of published and previously unpublished verse" representative of the best short poems written by Australians or inspired by Australian scenery and conditions of life, - 'Australian' in this connection being used to include New Zealand.' It has been noted as the first national anthology of Australian poetry. Critical reception A reviewer in ''The Leader'' noted that the anthology "will be gratefully received by those who are willing to acknowledge that there are sweet strains worth remembrance among the vast volume of minor poetry. If a critical judgment may cavil at the inclusion of some who have been awarded this distinction, the plea may be urged that we know not the mass of rejection." And concluded "On the whole, the work of selection has been well done, and the editor m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature in 1892. Events * 9 July - Henry Lawson kicks off the Bulletin Debate with the publication of his poem " Borderland", later retitled "Up the Country". "Banjo" Paterson and others replied. Books * Fergus Hume — ''The Island of Fantasy: A Romance'' * John Miller — ''The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel'' * Hume Nisbet ** ''The Bushranger's Sweetheart: An Australian Romance'' ** ''The Divers: A Romance of Oceania'' * Rosa Praed ** ''December Roses: A Novel'' ** ''The Romance of a Chalet'' Poetry * Barcroft Boake ** " An Allegory" ** " At Devlin's Siding" ** " Down the River" ** " Jim's Whip" * Jennings Carmichael – " The Old Bush Road" * Victor J. Daley ** " A-Roving" ** "Cares" * Edward Dyson ** " Cleaning Up" ** " The Fact of the Matter" ** " The Old Whim Horse" ** " Struck It At Last" * George Essex Evans — " The Two Goblets" * Sydney Jephcott — ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * William Butler Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin. Works published Australia United Kingdom * A. C. Benson, ''Le Cahier Jaune''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Wilfred Seawen Blunt, ''Esther, Love Lyrics, and Natalia's'' * Austin Dobson, ''The Ballad of Beau Brocade, and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century'' * Rudyard Kipling, '' Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses'', including "Gunga Din," "Danny Deever", "Fuzzy-Wuzzy", "Mandalay" and "Gentlemen-Rankers", first book publication, Methuen (see also ''Barrack-Room Balads, second series'' in 1896) * Richard Le Gallienne, ''English Poems'' * George Meredith: ** ''Modern Love: Aa Reprint'' (see ''Modern Love'', 1862) ** ''Poems'' * Arthur Symons, ''Silhouettes'' * Alfred Tennyson: ** ''The Silent Voices ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Poems
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
