The Old Bush Road

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"The Old Bush Road"
by Jennings Carmichael
Written1892
First published in The Australasian
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
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"The Old Bush Road" (1892) (aka ("An Old Bush Road") is a poem by Australian poet Jennings Carmichael. [1]

Contents

It was originally published in The Australasian on 23 April 1892 and subsequently reprinted in Poems, the author's sole poetry collection, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. [1]

Critical reception

While reviewing the author's poetry collection, Poems, a writer in The Australasian observed that Jennings had made the subject of "charmingly poetical" all her own: "It deals with the Australian bush as seen in the tender light of a loving memory that goes back to girlhood's days, and amid the city's growl and grime catches faint breaths of the gum forest at evening, hears the magpies fluting their tumultuous welcome to the dawn, or follows in fancy every winding of the 'old bush road' as it passes round the clumps of wattles, or over the creek where the bell-birds haunt, or skirts the marsh where the mosses grow in their redness, and the swan, the bittern, and the curlew dwell." [2]

Publication history

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

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References

  1. 1 2 "Austlit - "The Old Bush Road" by Jennings Carmichael". Austlit. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  2. ↑ ""Poems by Jennings Carmichael"". Australasian. The Australasian, 4 January 1896, p41. 4 January 1896. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "Selections from the Australian Poets (Cornstalk Publishing)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "A Treasury of Colonial Poetry (Currawong)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  5. ↑ "Australian Bush Poems (Axiom)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
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