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    My Army, O, My Army! and Other Songs
    My Army, O, My Army! and Other Songs
    My Army, O, My Army! and Other Songs
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    My Army, O, My Army! and Other Songs

    By Henry Lawson

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    Henry Lawson's poems narrate the rawness of life in the Australian bush between the late 19th and early 20th century, among humble herdsmen, sheep shearers and itinerant labourers, the compassion for the fates of others, the active solidarity, the austerity of the situations in which women and children live at the mercy of an impervious landscape. Lawson portrays them with great empathy and is able to capture the strenuous struggle to survive in a hostile world and the courage to face the unknown. "My Army, O, My Army" is one collection of his poems.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 9, 2021
    ISBN4066338083272
    My Army, O, My Army! and Other Songs
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    Henry Lawson

    Henry Lawson was born in Grenfell, NSW, in 1867. At 14 he became totally deaf, an affliction which many have suggested rendered his world all the more vivid and subsequently enlivened his later writing. After a stint of coach painting, he edited a periodical, The Republican, and began writing verse and short stories. His first work of short fiction appeared in the Bulletin in 1888. He travelled and wrote short fiction and poetry throughout his life and published numerous collections of both even as his marriage collapsed and he descended into poverty and mental illness. He died in 1922, leaving his wife and two children.

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