Faces in the Street

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"Faces in the Street"
by Henry Lawson
Written1888
First published in The Bulletin
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Preceded by"Andy's Return"
Followed by"The Blue Mountains"
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"Faces in the Street" (1888) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Lawson. [1]

Contents

It was originally published in The Bulletin on 28 July 1888 and subsequently reprinted in several of the author's other collections, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. [1]

Critical reception

A writer in The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature comments: "Written in a stirring rhythm from the perspective of a person whose 'window-sill is level with the faces in the street', the poem focuses on the flotsam and jetsam of the city who pass by from before dawn until after midnight." [2]

In reviewing the author's collection In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses a writer in The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) noted: "'Faces In the Street,' 'For'ard,' and 'The Cambaroora Star' touch questions of social reform. Or perhaps it would be better to say that they show the author's sympathy therewith, since he merely rails against the visible wrongs that now exist without seeming to have a constructive policy." [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 3 "Austlit - "Faces in the Street" by Henry Lawson". Austlit. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  2. ↑ The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature edited by William Wilde, Joy Hooton and Barry Andrews, Oxford University Press, 1986, p247
  3. ↑ ""In the Days When the World was Wide"". The Daily Telegraph, 15 February 1896, p9. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "Selected Poems of Henry Lawson (A&R)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  5. ↑ "Freedom on the Wallaby (Pinchgut Press)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  6. ↑ "Favourite Australian Poems (Rigby)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  7. ↑ "Poems of Henry Lawson (Ure Smith)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  8. ↑ "The World of Henry Lawson (Hamlyn)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  9. ↑ "The Collins Book of Australian Poetry (Collins)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  10. ↑ "The Essential Henry Lawson (Currey O'Neil)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  11. ↑ "A Campfire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 (Lansdowne)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  12. ↑ "The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse (Nelson)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  13. ↑ "My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years (Lansdowne)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  14. ↑ "The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads (Penguin)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  15. ↑ "The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse (SL of NSW Press)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  16. ↑ "200 Years of Australian Writing (VDL Publications)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  17. ↑ "Harbour City Poems : Sydney in Verse 1788-2008 (Puncher and Wattmann)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
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