 Australian Poetry And Verse
10 Books From Yesteryear All On One CD!
Including Banjo Paterson And Henry Lawson
 1. Selected Poems Of Henry Lawson 1918 (172 pages)
"Henry Lawson is the first articulate voice of the real Australia.
Other singers in plenty the southern continent knows and
has known men and women following bravely in the broad
pathway where Byron strode and Wordsworth loitered; but one
alone has found the heart of the new land, its rugged strength,
its impatience of old restraints, its hopes and fears and despairs,
its irreverence and grim humour, and the tenderness and courage
that underlie them all. Lawson is never exquisite as are our
greater lyrists. The axemarks show in his work everywhere.
But he is sincere and strong and true; and the living beauty in
that sincerity and strength and truth grips us more than any
delicate craftsmanship. His laughter is as genuine as that of
the wind and the sea; he weeps as Australians of the bush weep,
with dry eyes and a hard curving mouth."
2. Coo-ee Tales Of Australian Life By Australian Ladies Edited by Mrs. Patchett Martin 1893 (337 pages)
"It is certainly 'a far cry' from the Antipodes to
England and back again. Yet in the name of my
Australian sisters who have contributed to this little
volume, I venture to express a hope that our ' Coo-ee
'
may succeed in making itself heard on either shore,
and that its echoes may linger pleasantly around the
Bush Station and by the English fireside. To our
kind friends and readers I would therefore only say
—
' Coo-ee ! Take up the cry and pass it on—Coo-ee !
—and again—Coo-ee !"
3. Australian Writers Desmond Byrne 1896 (304 pages)
This book is not poetry or verse but it's been included because it contains biographies of authors of the day such as Adam Lindsay Gordon, Henry Kingsley, Marcus Clarke and more.
"In
1894 they imported books, magazines and
newspapers from the United Kingdom to
the value of 363,741 pounds: this, too, at a time
when most of the colonies were understood
to be rigidly economising in consequence of
a financial crisis. A decade before the
amount was not far short of a hundred thousand pounds higher.
Foremost in his list of the salient intellectual
tendencies of the native population of
the United States Mr. Bryce places ' a desire
to be abreast of the best thought and work
of the world everywhere, and to have every
form of literature and art adequately represented
and excellent of its kind, so that
America shall be felt to hold her own among
the nations.' And he further attributes to
them ' an admiration for literary or scientific
eminence, an enthusiasm for anything that
can be called genius, with an over-readiness
to discover it."
4. Adam Lindsay Gordon's Australian Poems Edited by Charles R Long The Gordon Memorial Committee (51 pages).
"Though there are several biographies of Adam
Lindsay Gordon and editions of his poetry, yet this
book supplies a need—a biographical outline; a
collection of those poems that are distinctively Australian,
accompanied by notes to help to a fuller
understanding and appreciation of them; and photographs
of the principal monuments to him in
Australia."
5. Australian Songs And Poems Frederick Sydney Wilson 1870 (215 pages)
"To The People Of Australia, This Collection Of First Efforts Is Dedicated By An Australian."
6. Australian Essays Francis W L Adams 1886 (191 pages)
"It
would be absurd to suppose that it will not seem clear, to
whatever readers this little book may find here, that one of
the principal characters of the Dialogue is a man for whom
we all, I think, feel more interest, admiration, and respect than
any other among us. That this is so in reality, I must beg to
deny, and I hope that, when I state that I neither have myself,
nor know anyone who has, the honour of his acquaintance—
nay, that I have never even seen him—I hope that I shall
stand acquitted of all charges of personality."
7. Australian And Other Poems Roderick J Flanagan 1887 (106 pages)
"The author of the following poems died
twenty-five years ago. Some of them appeared
in various Sydney newspapers, while
he was yet living, but many are now printed
for the first time. Such exercises were rather
the solace and diversion than the serious
business of any portion of his literary career
—
a career which was, unfortunately, as brief as
it was full of promise."
8. An Anthology Of Australian Verse Edited by Bertram Stevens 1906 (340 pages)
"The Editor has endeavoured to make this selection
representative of the best short poems written by
Australians or inspired by Australian scenery and conditions
of life,—" Australian " in this connection being used
to include New Zealand. The arrangement is as
nearly as possible chronological ; and the appendix
contains brief biographical particulars of the authors,
together with notes which may be useful to readers
outside Australia."
9. Australian Ballads And Ryhmes Edited by Douglas B W Sladen 1888 ( 344 pages)
"AUSTRALIA is the country of the future.
Separated by oceans from every considerable
land except impenetrable and equatorial
New Guinea, blessed with an unmalarious
climate more brilliant and equable than that of
Italy, and peopled from the most adventurous of
the colonising Anglo-Saxon stock, this round
world in the far South-eastern seas gives race
development its amplest scope."
10. Poems By An Australian Scot Allan Fullerton Wilson 1918 (155 pages)
"Allan Fullarton Wilson was born in Glasgow in 1857.
His mother died a week after his birth, and when he was
about four years old he was brought to Australia. His
father was a partner in the firm of Timms, Wilson & Co.,
of Geelong, and at a later stage became owner of the
estate of Gala, at Lismore. Upon the sub-division of
the property, he retained half of the original area, and
arranged that the historic name should remain attached
to his portion. There he died in 1888."
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