Australian Poets Poetry Versus & Bush Songs 17 ebook CD

1. A Century of Australian Song (1888) 618 pages

EDITED BY
DOUGLAS B. W. SLADEN, B.A, OxoN.
B.A., LL.B., Melbourne, Australia

INTRODUCTION.
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 colonizing Anglo-Saxon stock, this round world in the far southeastern
seas gives race development its amplest scope.

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2.  An anthology of Australian verse (1906)  340 pages

EDITED BY BERTRAM STEVENS

PREFACE
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 beingused 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.

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3. Australian ballads, and other poems (1888)  354 pages

The Canterbury Poets. Edited by William Sharp. SECOND EDITION.

The vigorous man must be strangely constituted who does not love Australia, with its glittering air, its vast space, its infinite possibilities ; and strangely constituted the light-hearted girl who does not revel in its pleasure-days unspoiled by
rain, its lustrous nights secure from chill.

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4.  Australian Love Poems (1920) 134 pages

Gleanings from Australasian Verse
Love Poems Gathered by Mary E. Wilkinson

To every man and woman who is a lover of art, as well as of humanitv, every poem of genuine inspiration is a Love
Poem, and this volume of the series of "GLEANINGS FROM AUSTRALASIAN VERSE" deserves the title no more truly
than most of the others, if we may permit ourselves to take the larger view. However, the lesser love, where it is worthy
of the name at all, may typify the greater, and the majority of the poems included in this little book deal with that phase
of human experience which is generally understood to be represented by the word—the love of man and woman.

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5.  Australian poets, 1788-1888; 668 pages

AUSTRALIAN POETS 1788-1888
BEING A SELECTION OF POEMS UPON ALL SUBJECTS
WRITTEN IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
DURING THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE BRITISH COLONfZA TION
WITH BRIEF NOTES ON THEIR AUTHORS AND
AN INTRODUCTION BY PATCHETT MARTIN
EDITED BY
DOUGLAS B. W. SLADEN, B.A. Oxon.
B.A. LL.B. Melbourne, Australia
AUTHOR OF
"AUSTRALIAN LYRICS," "a POETRY OF EXILES." ETC., ETC,
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6.  A Henry Lawson Collection

1. Children of the bush, by Henry Lawson (1902) 348 pages

2. Humorous verses (1905) 170 pages

3. My army, O, my army! and other songs (1915)  138 pages

4. Song of the Dardanelles, and other verses (1916) 154 pages

5. Triangles of life, and other stories (1916) 262 pages

6. Verses popular and humorous (1900) 284 pages

7. While the billy boils (1913)  404 pages

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7.  Selected poems of Henry Lawson. Illustrated by Percy Leason (1918) 172 pages

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8.  The golden treasury of Australian verse (1912)  408 pages

EDITED BY BERTRAM STEVENS

When " An Anthology of Australian Verse " was prepared for publication in 1906 the Editor was unable to obtain permission to use certain copyright poems which he wished to include. Since then the restrictions have been generously removed ; it has therefore been
possible to revise the original selection, and to make it more thoroughly representative of the best short poems written by Australians or inspired by the scenery and conditions of life in Australia and New Zealand.

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9.  The little track, and other verses (1922)  40 pages

Published by Robertson & Mullens Limited

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10.  The old bush songs by Banjo Paterson (1905)  192 pages

The old bush songs composed and sung in the bushranging,
digging, and overlanding days (1905)

PREFACE
The object of the present publication is to gather together all the old bush songs that are worth remembering. Apart
from other considerations, there are many Australians who will be reminded by these songs of the life of the shearing
sheds, the roar of the diggings townships, and the campfires of the overlanders. The diggings are all deep sinking now,
the shearing is done by contract, and the cattle are sent by rail to market, while newspapers travel all over Australia;
so there will be no more bush ballads composed and sung, as these were composed and sung, as records of the
early days of the nation.

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11.  The Oxford book of Australasian verse (1918)  312 pages

Chosen by Walter Murdoch

TO
ALFRED DEAKIN
SAGEST OF COUNSELLORS, SOUNDEST OF CRITICS, AND
KINDEST OF FRIENDS, THIS BOOK IS OFFERED IN
THE HOPE THAT HE WILL FIND ON ITS PAGES
NOTHING UNWORTHY OF THE COUNTRY
HE HAS LOVED SO FERVENTLY AND
SO FAITHFULLY SERVED

Here is a selection, as fairly representative as I knew how to make it, from the mass of verse written by Australians and New Zealanders during the last hundred years or so, arranged, roughly, in chronological order, beginning with Wentworth,
whose vigorous rhetoric has an eighteenthcentury ring in it, and ending on a very distinct twentieth-century note. From this gathering the reader will or so I hope be able to get a fair idea of the kind of poetry these lands have been fashioning.
It is for him to say how he likes it ; I, at least, will not commit the impertinence of telling him how he ought to like it.