A Song of the Republic

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"A Song of the Republic"
by Henry Lawson
Original titleSons of the South
Written1887
First published in The Bulletin
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Publication date1 October 1887
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"A Song of the Republic" (1887) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Lawson. It was the author's first published poem. [1]

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It was originally published in The Bulletin on 1 October 1887, and subsequently reprinted in other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. [1]

Critical reception

Writing an overview of the author's career in 1919, Bertram Stevens said of the poem: "Monarchs were the traditional symbols of tyranny, so much of the unrest of the time expressed itself as republicanism; the average respectable citizen, by the way, regarded socialism, republicanism, communism, and anarchism as the same thing and all anathema. Lawson set forth the aspirations of many of the submerged in a fiery 'Song of the Republic'. [2]

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states that "A Song of the Republic" is "a stirring appeal to the 'Sons of the South' (the original title) to bring about a new social order." [3]

Publication history

After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin it was reprinted as follows:

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References

  1. 1 2 "Austlit — "A Song of the Republic" by Henry Lawson". Austlit. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  2. ↑ ""Some Australian Writers: Henry Lawson by Bertram Stevens"". The Daily Mail (Brisbane), 21 June 1919, p12. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  3. 1 2 The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature edited by Wilde, Hooton and Andrews, 2nd edition, p638
  4. ↑ "The Essential Henry Lawson (Currey O'Neil)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  5. ↑ "A Campfire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 (Lansdowne)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  6. ↑ "The Poet's Discovery : Nineteenth Century Australia in Verse (MUP)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  7. ↑ "Henry Lawson (Text Publishing)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
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