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- Flag of the Southern Crossi"Sons of Australia, be loyal and true to her", single work poetry (p. 8-9)
- Eureka (a Fragment)i"Roll up, Eureka's heroes, on that Grand Old Rush afar,", single work poetry (p. 24-26)
- The Water Lily The Water-Liliesi"A lonely young wife", single work poetry (p. 89)
- The Fight at Eureka Stockadei""Was I at Eureka?" his figure was drawn to a youthful height,", single work poetry (p. 93-96)
- The Free-Selector's Daughter : A Song of 'Sunny Lachlan Side'i"I met her on the Lachlan Side-", single work poetry humour (p. 111-112)
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"Our fathers toiled for bitter bread"
Freedom on the Wallabyi"Australia's a big country",
single work
poetry
(p. 123-124)According to Colin Roderick, the poem was inspired by shearing disputes in Western Queensland and written for William Lane, at this time editor of the Brisbane Worker. Several versions of the poem exist.
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"There's trouble in the back countree"
Freedom on the Wallabyi"Australia's a big country",
single work
poetry
(p. 400-401)According to Colin Roderick, the poem was inspired by shearing disputes in Western Queensland and written for William Lane, at this time editor of the Brisbane Worker. Several versions of the poem exist.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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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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[Review] Henry Lawson : Collected Verse
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 7 March 1968; (p. 231)
— Review of Henry Lawson : Collected Verse : Vol.I 1885-1900 1967 selected work poetry -
Lawson's Poems
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 38 1968; (p. 47-48)
— Review of Henry Lawson : Collected Verse : Vol.I 1885-1900 1967 selected work poetry -
Lawson Edited
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: Makar , November vol. 4 no. 4 1968; (p. 48-52)
— Review of Henry Lawson : Collected Verse : Vol.I 1885-1900 1967 selected work poetry -
See Also [Letter]
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: Advocate: A Weekly Catholic Journal , 7 September 1967; (p. 19)
— Review of Henry Lawson : Collected Verse : Vol.I 1885-1900 1967 selected work poetry
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[Review] Short Stories of Australia : The Lawson Tradition [et al]
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 June 1967; (p. 20)
— Review of Short Stories of Australia : The Lawson Tradition 1967 anthology short story ; Henry Lawson 1967 single work biography ; Henry Lawson's Humorous Stories 1967 selected work short story ; Henry Lawson : Collected Verse : Vol.I 1885-1900 1967 selected work poetry -
[Review] Henry Lawson : Collected Verse
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: Townsville Daily Bulletin , 17 June 1967;
— Review of Henry Lawson : Collected Verse : Vol.I 1885-1900 1967 selected work poetry -
[Review] Henry Lawson : Collected Verse
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: Otago Daily Times , 9 August 1967;
— Review of Henry Lawson : Collected Verse : Vol.I 1885-1900 1967 selected work poetry -
[Review] Henry Lawson : Collected Verse
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 27 no. 4 1967; (p. 298-299)
— Review of Henry Lawson : Collected Verse : Vol.I 1885-1900 1967 selected work poetry -
[Review] Henry Lawson : Collected Verse
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 21 October 1967; (p. 24)
— Review of Henry Lawson : Collected Verse : Vol.I 1885-1900 1967 selected work poetry -
"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)
