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The Bookfellow
11 July
1907
Z608235
1907
periodical issue
1907
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The Bookfellow
11 July
1907
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1907
periodical issue
1907
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Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life
W. F. Refshauge
(editor),
Melbourne
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Australian Scholarly Publishing
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2007
Z1433606
2007
collected work
poetry
'The 1890s produced an extraordinary outpouring of distinctively Australian writing. The most famous writers now are Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, but others were as well known in their day. Among the half-forgotten poets is Barcroft Boake, who as a young man from Sydney found a job up country, and fell in love with the bush way of life. From Western Queensland in summer to Adaminaby in winter, he lived that life, and it sustains his writing. His wrote about what he found: very real people, often people he knew, and their successes and disasters. But he was also a casualty of the hard times of the early 'nineties. In the grip of depression, aged just twenty-six, he killed himself. His best-known work is the ballad 'Where the Dead Men Lie', an Australian classic. He wrote many others as attractive but less well known. Here, they are all carefully edited, and the extensive notes include background on the events and characters in the poems.' (Publisher's blurb)
Melbourne
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Australian Scholarly Publishing
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2007
pg.
209-212; notes 286
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