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The Sick Stockrider (poem)
''The Sick Stockrider'' is a poem by Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. It was first published in ''Colonial Monthly'' magazine in January 1870, although the magazine was dated December 1869. It was later in the poet's second and last poetry collection '' Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes'' (1870). Analysis "The Evening Journal" (Adelaide) called the poem "...the best piece Mr. Gordon ever wrote..." after its publication in ''Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes''. ''The Oxford History of Australian Literature'' stated that "The ballad of the dying stockman, with its creed of mateship, its laconic acceptance in true bush style of whatever life and death may offer, led Marcus Clarke to assert that in Gordon's work lay the beginnings of a national school of Australian poetry."''The Oxford History of Australian Literature'', Second Edition, p696 Further publications * ''An Anthology of Australian Verse'' edited by Bertram Stevens (1907) * ''The Sick Stockrider and Other Poems'' by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon (19 October 1833 – 24 June 1870) was a British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician. He was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and according to his contemporary, writer Marcus Clarke, Gordon's work represented "the beginnings of a national school of Australian poetry". Early life Though commonly cited as having been born in Fayal in the Azores, where Captain Gordon had brought his wife for the sake of her health, Gordon's birthplace was the small English village of Charlton Kings near Cheltenham, where he was baptised. He was the son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon and Harriet Gordon, his first cousin, both of whom were descended from Adam Gordon of Auchindoun, of the ballad " Edom o Gordon". Captain Gordon had retired from the Bengal cavalry and taught Hindustani. His mother's family had owned slaves in the British West Indies until the abolition of slavery in the 1830s, and had received significant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australians
Australians, colloquially known as Aussies, are the citizens, nationals and individuals associated with the country of Australia. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or ethno-cultural. For most Australians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Australian. Australian law does not provide for a racial or ethnic component of nationality, instead relying on citizenship as a legal status. Since the postwar period, Australia has pursued an official policy of multiculturalism and has the world's eighth-largest immigrant population, with immigrants accounting for 30 percent of the population in 2019. Between European colonisation in 1788 and the Second World War, the vast majority of settlers and immigrants came from the British Isles (principally England, Ireland and Scotland), although there was significant immigration from China and Germany during the 19th century. Many early settlements were initially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bush Ballads And Galloping Rhymes
''Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes'' (1870) is the second poetry collection by Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. It was also the last collection to be published during the poet's lifetime appearing only the day before the author's suicide. The original collection included only 16 poems, though later editions expanded on this list. Most of the poems were published in the Australian newspapers ''Colonial Monthly'' and ''The Australasian''. Contents * " A Dedication" * " The Sick Stockrider" * "The Swimmer" * "From the Wreck" * "No Name" * "Wolf and Hound" * "De Te" * "How We Beat the Favourite" * "From The Road to Avernus" * "Doubtful Dreams" * "The Rhyme of Joyous Garde" * " Thora's Song" * "The Three Friends" * "A Song of Autumn" * "The Romance of Britomarte" * "Laudamus" Critical reception On its original publication a reviewer in ''The Argus'', aware of the poet's recent death, wrote: "Mr. Gordon was a man of cultivated and refined mind, and of more than average litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Awards Works published United Kingdom * Edward Lear, ''Nonsense Songs, stories, Botany, and Alphabets'' (published this year, although the book states "1871"; see also ''Book of Nonsense'' 1846, ''More Nonsense'' 1872, ''Laughable Lyrics'' 1877)Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * William Morris, ''The Earthly Paradise'', Part 4 (Parts 1 and 2 1868, Part 3 1869) * Arthur O'Shaughnessy, ''An Epic of Women, and Other Poems'' * Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ''Poems'', including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life", exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave * James Joseph Sylvester, a mathematician, publishes ''The Laws of Verse'' * Alfred Lord Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King'' with eight Idylls in the order Tennyson wanted at this point (see also ''Idylls of the King'' 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1870. Events *January 19 – Ivan Turgenev attends and writes about the public execution by guillotine of the spree killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann outside the gates of La Roquette Prisons in Paris. * March 7 – Thomas Hardy meets his first wife, Emma Gifford, in Cornwall. *March 28 – Serialisation of Kenward Philp's ''The Bowery Detective'' in ''The Fireside Companion'' (New York) begins, the first known story to include the word '' detective'' in the title. *April–September – The serialisation of Charles Dickens' last novel, ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'', is left unfinished on his death on June 9 at Gads Hill Place in Kent, from a stroke, aged 58. *May – Karl May begins a second four-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds, at Waldheim, Saxony. *Spring – Serial publication begins of Aleksis Kivi's only novel '' Seitsemän veljestä'' ("Seven Brothers"), the first notable novel in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1870. Books * James Lester Burke — ''The Adventures of Martin Cash'' * Marcus Clarke — ''For the Term of His Natural Life'' * B. L. Farjeon — ''Joshua Marvel'' * J. R. Houlding ** ''The Farm, the City and the Sea'' ** ''Rural and City Life, or, The Fortunes of the Stubble Family'' Short stories * Marcus Clarke — "Squatters of the Past and Present : 'Arcades Ambo'" * B. L. Farjeon — "In Australian Wilds" * Mary Fortune ** "The Hart Murder" ** "My Lodger" ** "The Spider and the Fly" Poetry * Mary Hannay Foott — " Ave Caesar! Te Morituri Salutant!" * Adam Lindsay Gordon ** ''Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes'' ** " The Sick Stockrider" ** " Thora's Song" * Henry Kendall ** " Bush Lyrics : No. II : Camped by the Creek" ** " The Late A. L. Gordon : In Memoriam" * Francis MacNamara — "The Ballad of Martin Cash" Essays * Henry Kendall — "The Holy Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Poems
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatew ...'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 Poems
Year 187 ( CLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Quintius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 940 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 187 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Septimius Severus marries Julia Domna (age 17), a Syrian princess, at Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon). She is the youngest daughter of high-priest Julius Bassianus – a descendant of the Royal House of Emesa. Her elder sister is Julia Maesa. * Clodius Albinus defeats the Chatti, a highly organized German tribe that controlled the area that includes the Black Forest. By topic Religion * Olympianus succeeds Pertinax as bishop of Byzantium (until 198). Births * Cao Pi, Chinese emperor of the Cao Wei state (d. 226) * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
