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The Sick Stockrider
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"Hold hard, Ned! lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade,"
First known date:
1869
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First known date:
1869...
1869
The Sick Stockrider
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- form y The Sick Stockrider ( dir. W. J. Lincoln ) Australia : Lincoln-Cass Films , 1913 Z1661246 1913 single work film/TV A dying stockrider recalls his past, including a chase after the bushranger Captain Starlight.
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Appeared in the Colonial Monthly in January 1870 dated 'December, 1869.'
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Adapted for the 1913 silent film 'The Sick Stockrider' directed by W.J. Lincoln
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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'The Sick Stockrider' : Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)
2007
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Classics : Fifty Great Writers and Their Celebrated Works 2007; (p. 26-30) -
The Grave in the Bush
1994
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criticism
— Appears in: Tilting at Matilda : Literature, Aborigines, Women and the Church in Contemporary Australia 1994; (p. 30-38) -
What Made the Sick Stockrider Sick? The Function of Horses and Fever in A.L. Gordon's `The Sick Stockrider'
1993
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criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , Autumn vol. 38 no. 1 1993; (p. 35-42) -
Adam Lindsay Gordon as Hero
1992
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criticism
biography
— Appears in: Myths, Heroes and Anti-Heroes : Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region 1992; (p. 98-106) -
Ballad and Lyric in Australian Poetry
1987
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criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth , Autumn vol. 10 no. 1 1987; (p. 68-76)
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Introduction to the Penguin Book of Australian Verse
1972
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criticism
— Appears in: The Penguin Book of Australian Verse 1972; (p. 27-53)Explores the passage of Australian poetry from 1788 to the early 1970s, discussing why the anthology focuses on 'articulate, personal poetry', and is weighted toward the fruitful period after 1930. Highlights important themes and concerns of Australian poetry - the quest for an Antipodean Eden, the pursuit of Romantic idealism within a strongly secular culture, and the need to define an Australian vision and identity against English culture - and assesses the individual contributions of major poets.
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The Pessimist in Poetry
1877
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criticism
— Appears in: Looking Back Gaily 1877; (p. 56-61) The Author describes what he claims to be the mistaken attribution of a poem by Mowbray Morris to Adam Lindsay Gordon, highlighting the extreme pessimism in Gordon's writing. -
'The Sick Stockrider' : Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)
2007
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Classics : Fifty Great Writers and Their Celebrated Works 2007; (p. 26-30) -
Lindsay Gordon Lovers' Society [Meeting Report]
1937
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— Appears in: All About Books , 12 May vol. 9 no. 5 1937; (p. 78) Report of the meeting of 17 April. Includes "a graphic account" of the commemoration for Jennings Carmichael at Orbost; a recitation of 'The Sick Stockrider'; Daley on 'Gone' and the performance of the "playlet" 'The Last Hours of the Poet Gordon' by Robert Khyat. -
Lindsay Gordon Lovers' Society [Meeting Report]
1937
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— Appears in: All About Books , 13 September vol. 9 no. 9 1937; (p. 146) Report of the meeting 21 August where Miss McMeekin read Harrington's 'At the Graveside' "inspired by the passing of J. Roy Stevens". Other rectals included 'The Carrying of the Baby' and 'The Sick Stockrider'.
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