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Viking Song

A poem included in the â€˜Poems and Rhymesâ€™ section on page 4 of the Adelaide newspaper â€˜The Registerâ€™ on August 31, 1918. The poem evokes the Norse gods Odin and Thor in its imagery of shipbuilding, specifically modern steel…

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â€˜The Vikingâ€™ poem

A poem by J.A. Fort published in the UK magazine The Spectator and reprinted on page 5 of the Adelaide newspaper The Register on September 25, 1926. The poem describes the attraction of going on a Viking raid by ship, including the knowledge that if…

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Troubadour Song

Hobart Gazette Van Dieman's Land Advertiser 1825 Poem.pdf

A poem featured in The Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser, which conforms to lyrical and bardic poetic traditions. It has medieval and classical undertones in both style and language.

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Tristram and Iseult. A Long Narrative Poem.

Tristram and Iseult_Western Mail_4 August 1927_p8.pdf

This article from the Western Mail offers a positive review of Edwin Arlington Robinsonâ€™s long narrative poem â€˜Tristramâ€™, published in 1927. Following poems titled â€˜Merlinâ€™ in 1917 and â€˜Lancelotâ€™ in 1920,…

When I was King, poem by Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson (1867-1922) is one of Australia's most famous poets, and can be regarded as a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement.

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Our Mistress and our Queen, poem by Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement, protests against what he sees as the forced allegiance to the monarchy and the bloodshed of war in the name of the monarch.

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Critical Article by Brian Matthews

Abstract: Matthews finds a unity in the arrangement of stories in While the Billy Boils. The chronological nature of the stories, the use of rumour and the consistent use of time and distance are all elements that support the structure of the…

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Queen Hilda of Virland, poem by Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement, wrote this poem in 1910 (MS). The meaning is unclear but Lawson writes of a mythical kingdom of Virland. It could be an allegory of…

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