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"The Old Squire Sir William rode to Virland," Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement.
‘Because of her Father’s Blood’, The Bulletin, 25 June 1908
Henry Lawson produced several interrelated medieval poems c. 1908 which The Bulletin published. ‘Because of her Father’s Blood’ is the third poem of the Sir William series. While the knight is away crusading his aunt, Dame Ruth, is…
‘Parkes and the Templars’, The Bulletin, 3 September 1887
This poem has links with medievalism through its reference to ‘the Templars’. However, the Templars to whom it refers are not the famous medieval order of crusading knights but rather the crusading nineteenth-century temperance society,…
‘Inferno, canto XIII: The Forest of Suicides’ by Fiona Hall
This photographic artwork by Australian artist Fiona Hall belongs to a series titled ‘Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy’. It is held by The National Gallery of Australia and depicts a scene from canto XIII of Dante…
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‘The Rule of the Many’, The Bulletin, 15 November 1890.
This poem provides a vigorous denunciation of “the English caste system†and “celebrates the decay of feudalism,†at least in the Australian rural locale (Louise D'Arcens, Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in…
Tags: democracy, feudalism, inequality, merit, natural law, poem, privilege, wealth, workers rights
‘The Viking’ 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…
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…
Hurdy Gurdy demonstration
This photograph shows Alana Bennett playing a six stringed Phoenix Standard hurdy gurdy made by Helmut Gotschy in Germany (www.gotschy.com). The hurdy gurdy is a stringed instrument played by using a crank-turned wheel. It developed from fiddles and…