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The Great Australian Adjective
''The Great Australian Adjective'' is a humorous poem by English writer and poet W. T. Goodge. It was first published in '' The Bulletin'' magazine on 11 December 1897, the Christmas issue of that publication, and later in the poet's only collection ''Hits! Skits! and Jingles!''. The poem was originally published with the title "-----!", a subtitle of "The Great Australian Adjective" and was signed as by "The Colonel", a regular pseudonym of Goodge's. Analysis The poem is written with a number of words "blanked out", allowing the reader to substitute whatever they choose. For example: The sunburnt ---- stockman stood And, in a dismal ---- mood, Apostrophized his ---- cuddy; "The ---- nag's no ---- good, He couldn't earn his ---- food - A regular ---- brumby, ----!" Bill Hornadge, in ''The Australian Slanguage'', his survey of Australian English and its usage, states that "The word BLOODY has for so long been called the Great Australian Adjective", a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bulletin (Australian Periodical)
''The Bulletin'' was an Australian weekly magazine first published in Sydney on 31 January 1880. The publication's focus was politics and business, with some literary content, and editions were often accompanied by cartoons and other illustrations. The views promoted by the magazine varied across different editors and owners, with the publication consequently considered either on the left or right of the political spectrum at various stages in its history. ''The Bulletin'' was highly influential in Australian culture and politics until after the First World War, and was then noted for its nationalist, pro-labour, and pro-republican writing. It was revived as a modern news magazine in the 1960s, and after merging with the Australian edition of Newsweek in 1984 was retitled ''The Bulletin with Newsweek''. It was Australia's longest running magazine publication until the final issue was published in January 2008. Early history ''The Bulletin'' was founded by J. F. Archibald and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language in England, English language, a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known in Old English as the ('race or tribe of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups the West Germanic tribes (the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians) who settled in southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Ancient Rome, Romans, and the Romano-British culture, partially Romanised Celtic Britons already living there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons. Nat Commun 7, 10326 (2016). https://doi.org/10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Austra-laise
"The Austra-laise" is a poem by Australian writer C.J. Dennis that was first published in '' The Bulletin'' magazine on 12 November 1908 as an entry in a National Song Competition which drew 74 entries. The entry was entitled "A Real Australian Austra--laise", and won its author a special prize.''The Making of a Sentimental Bloke'' by Alec H. Chisholm, 1946, pp 33-34 The poem is also known by the titles "The Austrabloodyaise" and " A Real Australian Austra-laise". It can be sung to the tune of "Onward Christian Soldiers". Originally published as a set of four verses in 1908, with blanks instead of dashes and under the byline "A. J. Dennis",''The Bulletin'', 12 November 1908, Red Page the poem was expanded later to its now-familiar 7 stanzas. It was later included in the author's poetry collections ''Backblock Ballads and Other Verses'' (1913) and ''Backblock Ballads and Later Verses'' (1918). It was subsequently reprinted in various newspaper and magazines, as well as in the po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish poetry, Irish or French poetry, France). Events Works published in English Canadian poetry, Canada * Jean Blewett, ''Heart Songs''Gustafson, Ralph, ''The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse'', revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books * Bliss Carman, ''Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea'', Canadian author published in the American poetry, United StatesLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) * William Henry Drummond, ''The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems'', employing dialectKeith, W. J."Poetry in English: 1867-1918" article in ''The Canadian Encyclo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
