Poems of Henry Lawson - Hardcover

Lawson, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0724900233 ISBN 13: 9780724900237

Publisher: Australian Universities Press, 1975

Synopsis

A few words from the Introduction: "Australia's poet of 'the way we were', rollicking bush balladist, rattling good storyteller, revolutionary champion of the down-and-out, sentimental romantic, wry humorist- these are some of the labels that various critics have pinned on Henry Lawson from time to time since the 1890s, when he first won acclaim as a poet. Lawson was all these things and more, as a browse through the selection of poems in this book will show." ...'I'll write as my heart directs me', said Lawson himself elsewhere. And again: 'I wrote of nothing that I have not myself seen or experienced'. Hence the felicity of his descriptive verse and his tremendous capacity for telling a story. Scenes and people come intensely alive, often with an economy of words that contrasts astonishingly with the tedious prolixity of much of the verse (not included in this book) which he would spin out to earn extra cash from newspapers and periodicals that paid a penny a line. Read On the Night Train and if you've ever gazed from the window of a country train speeding through the moonlit dark, you'll recognise 'the patch of glassy water' that is a dam or creek and '. . . the Bush below you sweeping darkly to the range'." This book has a long history of the poet's life. There are 20 poems and 64 pages. From the dust jacket: "Captured in words by one of Australia's greatest writers, the scenes and people spring visually to life in the wickedly witty illustrations by Ninon Phillips, as authentic as the smell of gum leaves and billy tea."

About this edition

• Publisher: Australian Universities Press
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0724900233
• ISBN 13: 9780724900237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1