"The City Bushman" | |
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by Henry Lawson | |
Original title | "In Answer to 'Banjo' and Otherwise" |
Written | 1892 |
First published in | The Bulletin |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Series | The Bulletin Debate |
Publication date | 6 August 1892 |
Full text | |
In Answer to Banjo, and Otherwise at Wikisource |
The City Bushman is a poem by iconic Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 6 August 1892, under the title In Answer to "Banjo", and Otherwise. It was the fourth work in the Bulletin Debate, a series of poems by both Lawson and Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, and others, about the true nature of life in the Australian bush. [1]
In The City Bushman, Lawson responds to Paterson's poem, In Defence of the Bush, quoting a number of phrases, and criticising each in turn. [2] [3]
After its initial publication in The Bulletin on 9 July 1892, the poem was then included in the following collections and anthologies:
"The City Bushman" | |
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by Henry Lawson | |
Original title | "In Answer to 'Banjo' and Otherwise" |
Written | 1892 |
First published in | The Bulletin |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Series | The Bulletin Debate |
Publication date | 6 August 1892 |
Full text | |
In Answer to Banjo, and Otherwise at Wikisource |
The City Bushman is a poem by iconic Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 6 August 1892, under the title In Answer to "Banjo", and Otherwise. It was the fourth work in the Bulletin Debate, a series of poems by both Lawson and Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, and others, about the true nature of life in the Australian bush. [1]
In The City Bushman, Lawson responds to Paterson's poem, In Defence of the Bush, quoting a number of phrases, and criticising each in turn. [2] [3]
After its initial publication in The Bulletin on 9 July 1892, the poem was then included in the following collections and anthologies: