| "The Roaring Days" | |
|---|---|
| by Henry Lawson | |
| Written | 1889 |
| First published in | The Bulletin |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Publication date | 21 December 1889 |
| Full text | |
 The Roaring Days at Wikisource | |
"The Roaring Days" (1889) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Lawson. [1]
It was originally published in The Bulletin on 21 December 1889, and subsequently reprinted in a collection of the author's poems, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. [1]
When reviewing Lawson's poetry collection In the Days when the World was Wide and Other Verses, a writer in The Evening News (Sydney) noted: "Mr. Lawson is not, indeed, likely to be ever revealed in the character of a master singer, but so far as he goes he is really a minstrel of native fire, and not like a good many who pretend to that character, a merely ingenious imitator or adaptor of other people's ideas." [2]
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states that "The Roaring Days" is "a phrase referring nostalgically to the gold rushes. Its best-known literary use is in Henry Lawson's poem, 'The Roaring Days', written from Lawson's boyhood memories of Gulgong and Pipeclay." [3]
After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin it was reprinted as follows:
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