The Sick Stockrider (poem)
Poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sick Stockrider is a poem by Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. It was first published in Colonial Monthly magazine in January 1870,[1] although the magazine was dated December 1869. It was later in the poet's second and last poetry collection Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).
"The Sick Stockrider" | |
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by Adam Lindsay Gordon | |
Written | 1869 |
First published in | Colonial Monthly |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Publication date | January 1870 |
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The Sick Stockrider at Wikisource |
"The Evening Journal" (Adelaide) called the poem "...the best piece Mr. Gordon ever wrote..."[2] after its publication in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes.
The Oxford History of Australian Literature stated that "The ballad of the dying stockman, with its creed of mateship, its laconic acceptance in true bush style of whatever life and death may offer, led Marcus Clarke to assert that in Gordon's work lay the beginnings of a national school of Australian poetry."[3]
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