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"A Man Apart :" The Unwritten Tragedy of Henry Lawson
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 7 no. 1 2016;' When Henry Lawson died in 1922, he was publicly honoured as a "national writer," but for the last twenty years of his life he had been a "derelict artist," caught in a cycle of poverty, alcoholism and depression, humiliated, frustrated, often ashamed of the work that he was producing and haunted by the sense of the writer that he might have been. Almost a century later, there is no biography that adequately portrays the man and the circumstances that contributed to his collapse. Underlying this article, which considers aspects of his struggle to realize his literary ambitions, is the assumption that because Lawson's work has such a strong autobiographical element, the way in which his life is read inevitably colours how his writing is read. Until there is a biography in which the tragic dimension of his life is fully recognized, our understanding of Lawson's literary achievement remains incomplete.' (Publication abstract)
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Henry Lawson and His Letters
1976
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review
— Appears in: Moderna Sprak , no. 4 1976;
— Review of Henry Lawson : Letters : 1890-1922 1970 selected work correspondence -
[Review] Henry Lawson : Letters
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Moderna Spiak (Stockholm) , no. 4 1976;
— Review of Henry Lawson : Letters : 1890-1922 1970 selected work correspondence -
Lawson Memorial
1975
single work
review
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , August vol. 10 no. 1 1975; (p. 77-79)
— Review of Henry Lawson : Autobiographical and Other Writings 1877-1922 1972 selected work prose short story autobiography correspondence ; Henry Lawson : Letters : 1890-1922 1970 selected work correspondence ; Henry Lawson : Short Stories and Sketches, 1888-1922 1972 selected work short story prose -
Short Views
1973
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 33 no. 3 1973; (p. 346-347)
— Review of Henry Lawson : Letters : 1890-1922 1970 selected work correspondence
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Henry Lawson and His Letters
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Moderna Sprak , no. 4 1976;
— Review of Henry Lawson : Letters : 1890-1922 1970 selected work correspondence -
[Review] The Letters of Hugh McCrae [et al]
1970
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 July 1970; (p. 24)
— Review of The Letters of Hugh McCrae 1970 selected work correspondence ; Henry Lawson : Letters : 1890-1922 1970 selected work correspondence ; The Last Letters 1868-1870 : Adam Lindsay Gordon to John Riddoch 1970 selected work correspondence -
[Review] The Letters of Hugh McCrae [et al]
1970
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 25 July 1970; (p. 12)
— Review of The Letters of Hugh McCrae 1970 selected work correspondence ; Henry Lawson : Letters : 1890-1922 1970 selected work correspondence ; The Last Letters 1868-1870 : Adam Lindsay Gordon to John Riddoch 1970 selected work correspondence -
Three Poets Revealed : Letters of Gordon, Lawson and McCrae
1971
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Spring vol. 30 no. 3 1971; (p. 353-356)
— Review of The Letters of Hugh McCrae 1970 selected work correspondence ; Henry Lawson : Letters : 1890-1922 1970 selected work correspondence ; The Last Letters 1868-1870 : Adam Lindsay Gordon to John Riddoch 1970 selected work correspondence -
[Review] The Letters of Hugh McCrae [and] Henry Lawson : Letters
1970
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 1 August 1970; (p. 16)
— Review of The Letters of Hugh McCrae 1970 selected work correspondence ; Henry Lawson : Letters : 1890-1922 1970 selected work correspondence -
"A Man Apart :" The Unwritten Tragedy of Henry Lawson
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 7 no. 1 2016;' When Henry Lawson died in 1922, he was publicly honoured as a "national writer," but for the last twenty years of his life he had been a "derelict artist," caught in a cycle of poverty, alcoholism and depression, humiliated, frustrated, often ashamed of the work that he was producing and haunted by the sense of the writer that he might have been. Almost a century later, there is no biography that adequately portrays the man and the circumstances that contributed to his collapse. Underlying this article, which considers aspects of his struggle to realize his literary ambitions, is the assumption that because Lawson's work has such a strong autobiographical element, the way in which his life is read inevitably colours how his writing is read. Until there is a biography in which the tragic dimension of his life is fully recognized, our understanding of Lawson's literary achievement remains incomplete.' (Publication abstract)