Henry Lawson
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922)[1] was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer".[2]
For other people named Henry Lawson, see Henry Lawson (disambiguation).
Henry Lawson
2 September 1922(1922-09-02) (aged 55)
Author, poet, balladist
2
- Louisa Lawson (mother)
- Bertha McNamara (mother-in-law)
- Jack Lang (brother-in-law)
A vocal nationalist and republican, Lawson regularly contributed to The Bulletin, and many of his works helped popularise the Australian vernacular in fiction. He wrote prolifically into the 1890s, after which his output declined, in part due to struggles with alcoholism and mental illness. At times destitute, he spent periods in Darlinghurst Gaol and psychiatric institutions. After he died in 1922 following a cerebral haemorrhage, Lawson became the first Australian writer to be granted a state funeral.
He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson.
Short Stories in Prose and Verse (1894) - short stories, prose, poetry
(1896) - short stories
While the Billy Boils
(1896) - poetry
In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses
(1900) - poetry
Verses, Popular and Humorous
(1900) - short stories
On the Track
(1900) - short stories
Over the Sliprails
On the Track, and, Over the Sliprails (1900) - short stories
Popular Verses (1900) - poetry
Humorous Verses (1900) - poetry
The Country I Come From (1901) - short stories
(1901) - short stories
Joe Wilson and His Mates
Children of the Bush (1902) - short stories, prose, poetry
(1905) - poetry
When I Was King and Other Verses
The Elder Son (1905) - poetry
When I Was King (1905) - poetry
The Romance of the Swag (1907) - short stories, prose
Send Round the Hat (1907) - short stories
The Skyline Riders and Other Verses (1910) - poetry
The Rising of the Court and Other Sketches in Prose and Verse (1910) - short stories, prose, poetry
(1913) - poetry
For Australia and Other Poems
Triangles of Life and Other Stories (1913) - short stories
My Army, O, My Army! and Other Songs (1915) - poetry
Song of the Dardanelles and Other Verses (1916) - poetry
Selected Poems of Henry Lawson (1918) - poetry
"" (poem, 1887)
A Song of the Republic
"" (essay, 1887)
Australian Loyalty
"" (poem, 1888)
Faces in the Street
"" (poem, 1888)
Andy's Gone with Cattle
"" (essay, 1888)
United Division
"" (poem, 1889)
The Roaring Days
"" (poem, 1889)
The Teams
"" (essay)
A Neglected History
"" (poem, 1890)
The Song of Old Joe Swallow
"" (poem, 1891)
Freedom on the Wallaby
"" (poem, 1891)
The Babies of Walloon
"" (short story, 1892)
The Bush Undertaker
"" (poem, 1892)
The City Bushman
"" (poem, 1892)
Up The Country
"" (poem, 1892)
The Grog-an'-Grumble Steeplechase
"" (short story, 1892)
The Drover's Wife
"" (poem, 1893)
Saint Peter
"" (short story, 1893)
The Union Buries Its Dead
"" (short story, 1895)
Steelman's Pupil
"" (short story, 1896)
The Geological Spieler
"" (short story, 1900)
The Iron-Bark Chip
"" (short story, 1901)
The Loaded Dog
"" (short story, 1902)
A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father
"" (short stories, 1916)
Triangles of Life, and other stories
"" (poem, 1917)
Scots of the Riverina
Joe Wilson
Jack Mitchell
Steelman and Smith
Brummy Hewson
Bulletin Debate
(March 1965). "Henry Lawson revisited". Meanjin Quarterly. 24 (1): 4–17.
Phillips, A. A.
(1967). Henry Lawson. Great Australians. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Wright, Judith
(1978). In Search of Henry Lawson. Melbourne. The MacMillan Company of Australia Pty. Ltd.
Clark, Manning
Ollif, Lorna (1978). 'Louisa Lawson - Henry Lawson's Crusading Mother'. Rigby Limited.
Page of Henry Lawson at Poeticous.com
Henry Lawson - Essays, Short Stories and Verse Collections
Henry Lawson and Louisa Lawson Online Chronology
Jack Thompson reads The Poems of Henry Lawson
National Library of Australia, Trove, People and Organisation record for Henry Lawson
Lawson, Henry (1867-1922)
Poetry Archive: 125 poems of Henry Lawson
at jbrowley.com