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Walter Stockpool

Henry Lawson: Favourite verse edited by Nancy Keesing, illustrated by Walter Stackpool

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June 1979, no. 11
Clement Semmler reviews 'Henry Lawson: Favourite verse' compiled by Nancy Keesing

I think it was Judith Wright who once remarked that Lawson as a poet wasn’t important; that he seems, usually to have turned to verse as a journalistic medium or as a weapon for propaganda, and that the few of his better poems were such rather because of the intensity of feeling than through any technical or poetic gift.

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