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Biography

Name: Henry Lawson
Birth Date: June 17, 1867
Death Date: September 2, 1922
Place of Birth: Grenfell, Australia
Nationality: Australian
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, poet

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Biography of Henry Lawson
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Henry Lawson (1867-1922) was an Australian poet and short-story writer. His many stories typify the nationalist period in Australian writing. Henry Lawson was born near the gold-mining center of Grenfell, New South Wales, on June 17, 1867, the son of...
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Biography of Henry (Archibald Hertzberg) Lawson
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Henry Lawson is the most famous and influential Australian literary figure of the nineteenth century. From poor rural beginnings he achieved a popular, ongoing nationwide reputation that is unlikely ever to be equaled. A poet, short-story writer, and...


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Henry Lawson Information
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Henry Lawson[1] (17 June, 1867 - 2 September, 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial...


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The camaraderie of not caring: misreading Henry Lawson.(Literature)
11/01/2007: 3,935 words, approx. 13 pages
THE LEGEND OF Henry Lawson which arose after his death was that of a man who had been there at the birth of the nation in the great days of the Bulletin, and who had partly created it himself. It was Lawson the...
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Australian Literary Studies
City Bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination.(Book Review)
10/01/2005: 1,070 words, approx. 4 pages
City Bushman. Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination, by Christopher Lee. Fremantle: Curtin University Books, an imprint of Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004. $29.95. 'For me', writes Christopher Lee in his introduction to City Bushman, 'Henry Lawson is intimately associated with ......
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Brian Matthews
8,389 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Matthews examines the role of women in Lawson's short stories.
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Critical Essay by Colin Roderick
6,865 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following excerpt, Roderick places Lawson's fiction in the context of the modern short story and the Australian short story.
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Critical Essay by John Barnes
6,447 words, approx. 22 pages
In the excerpt below, Barnes traces the evolution of Lawson criticism and provides a laudatory assessment of his achievement as a short story writer.
 


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