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A Bushman's Song
"A Bushman's Song" (1892) is a poem by Australian poet A. B. Paterson. It was originally published in '' The Bulletin'' on 24 December 1892, with the title "Travelling Down the Castlereagh", and subsequently reprinted in a collection of the author's poems, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. Critical reception While reviewing the poet's collection ''The Man From Snowy Rover and Other Verses'' a reviewer in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' noted: "In poems such as 'The Travelling Post-office,' 'Clancy of the Overflow,' 'On Kiley's Run,' 'Black Swans,' 'In the Droving Days,' 'A Bushman's Song,' 'The 'Wind's Message,' 'The Daylight is Dying,' and a few others, one finds the authentic transcript of the moods of inland Australia, the life of her people, and sometimes in their own words." ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' states: "In 'A Bushman's Song' atersonis the radical, putting the case for the ordinary drover and shear ...
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The Bulletin (Australian Periodical)
''The Bulletin'' was an Australian weekly magazine based in Sydney and first published in 1880. It featured politics, business, poetry, fiction and humour, alongside cartoons and other illustrations. ''The Bulletin'' exerted significant influence on Australian culture and politics, emerging as "Australia's most popular magazine" by the late 1880s. Jingoistic, xenophobic, anti-imperialist and Republicanism in Australia, republican, it promoted the idea of an Australian national identity distinct from its British colonial origins. Described as "the bushman's bible", ''The Bulletin'' helped cultivate a mythology surrounding the The bush#The Australian bush, Australian bush, with bush poets such as Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson contributing many of their best known works to the publication. After federation of Australia, federation in 1901, ''The Bulletin'' changed owners multiple times and gradually became more conservative in its views while remaining an "organ of Australianism" ...
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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", " 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'' 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" * " Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve : A Racing Rhyme" * " Clancy of the Overflow" * " Conroy's Gap" * " Our New Horse : A Racing Rhyme" * " An Idyll of Dandaloo" * " The Geebung Polo Club" * " The Travelling Post Offi ...
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Walter Murdoch
Sir Walter Logie Forbes Murdoch, (17 September 187430 July 1970) was a prominent Australian academic and essayist famous for his intelligence and wit. He was a founding professor of English and former Chancellor of the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth, Western Australia. A member of the prominent Australian Murdoch family, he was the father of Catherine, later prominent as Dr Catherine King (1904–2000), a radio broadcaster in Western Australia; the uncle of both Sir Keith, a journalist and newspaper executive, and Ivon, a soldier in the Australian Army; and the great-uncle of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch University is named in Sir Walter's honour; as is Murdoch, the suburb surrounding its main campus, located in Perth, Western Australia. Background and early career Murdoch was born on 17 September 1874 at Rosehearty, Scotland to Rev. James Murdoch, minister of the Free Church of Scotland, and his wife Helen, née Garden, and ...
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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 â ...
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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 ...
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1892 Poems
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 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 * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka ''On the Elements According to Hippocrate ...
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