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In the Days When the World Was Wide, and Other Verses

Henry Lawson

FormatEbook
Published2008
Words28,841
LanguageEnglish
ReadingIncluded
About this book
This poetry collection by Australian writer Henry Lawson gathers verses reflecting on bush life, national identity, and everyday hardship in colonial Australia. It suits readers interested in Australian literature and late nineteenth-century poetry.
Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer".

Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Portrait: via Wikipedia (see source).

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