Poetical Works Of Henry Lawson

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Angus And Robertson
Publisher Place: Sydney.
Publisher Year: 1979
Edition: Reprint

Description: 272 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. The Death Of Henry Lawson Marked The Close Of The Period In Australian Literature Which Began With Henry Kendall. While Living, Lawson Had Many Imitators, But No Peers, With His Death We Turned A Page To Which There Can Be No Additions.

Publishers Description: From Introduction: Henry Lawson is the first articulate voice of the real Australia. ....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 axe-marks 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.

ISBN: 0207943737