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 Grenfe...
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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...
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In the following passage, which was originally published as the preface to Short Stories in Prose and Verse (1894), Lawson introduces the stories in his first collection, emphasizing the Australian na...
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While the Joe Wilson stories are generally considered to represent Henry Lawson's prose style at its best, little attention has been paid to the narrative technique on which that style depends....
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In fashioning his short story form Lawson made, as A. A. Phillips has noted in 'The Craftsmanship of Lawson' [in Watercolor of Lawson. The Australian Tradition, 1958], considerable ...
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In the following essay, which was originally published in Overland in 1982, Heseltine evaluates Lawson's cultural significance, asserting that his realistic treatment of Australian themes and s...
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In the following essay, Stewart examines two chief characteristics of Lawson 's fiction, "human gregariousness " and "the hardness of things. "
The Loaded Dog inh...
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In the following essay, Matthews examines the role of women in Lawson's short stories.
In his harsh review of While The Billy Boils [found in Henry Lawson Criticism, 1972] A. G. Stephens mak...
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In the excerpt below, Barnes traces the evolution of Lawson criticism and provides a laudatory assessment of his achievement as a short story writer.
Story-telling is an ancient art, but the idea o...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1896, Ferguson offers a positive assessment of While the Billy Boils.
The sketches collected by Mr Henry Lawson, under the title While the Billy Boil...
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The Decline of Henry Lawson:
The remaining twenty years of Lawson's life were a dismal anticlimax to the promise of his youth, and throw little light on the body of work for which he is now r...
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Grattan was an American educator and critic with a special interest in Australian literature. In the following review, he provides an overview of the major themes of Lawson's short fiction.
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In the essay below, Wallace-Crabbe examines the themes of "Joe Wilson's Courtship, " "Brighten's Sister-in-law, " '"Water Them Geraniums,'...
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In the following excerpt, Mann outlines Lawson 's career and assesses his significance as a short story writer.
Henry Lawson, never one without literary honour, has now already attained, or ...
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In the following essay, Phillips offers a stylistic and thematic analysis of Lawson's short fiction.
Revisiting Henry Lawson, reading straight through all his most significant work, has prov...
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In the following excerpt, Roderick places Lawson's fiction in the context of the modern short story and the Australian short story.
[What] is the nature of the short story? What characterize...
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In the following essay, Matthews determines the significance of "The Drover's Wife" and "'Water Them Geraniums, '" maintaining that the stories are a &...
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Henry Lawson
Henry (Archibald Hertzberg) Lawson
Critical Essay by Henry Lawson
