| "Where the Dead Men Lie" | |
|---|---|
| by Barcroft Boake | |
| Written | 1891 |
| First published in | The Bulletin |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Publication date | 19 December 1891 |
| Full text | |
 Where the Dead Men Lie (poem) at Wikisource | |
"Where the Dead Men Lie" is a poem by Australian poet Barcroft Boake. It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 19 December 1891, [1] and later in the poet's poetry collection Where the Dead Men Lie, and Other Poems (1897).
J. Larcombe in The Worker considered the poem "Boake's masterpiece...In it the young poet expressed his detestation of the cruel, selfish squatters, their inhuman conduct, and the tragedy for which they were responsible." [2]
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states "In the poem Boake uses the contemptuous name 'Moneygrub' to denote the typical wealthy absentee landlord who lives in city luxury provided for him by the ordinary men and women of the outback..." [3]
The Cambridge History of Australian Literature described the poem "as by far the bleakest poetic vision" of the Australian landscape as it evokes "a haunted frontier." [4]
Cecil Mann, an associate editor of The Bulletin in the 1960s, theorised that the two "political stanzas" which conclude the poem were not written by Boake but were added by a leftist sub-editor of The Bulletin. However, Boake's biographer Clement Semmler later published correspondence by Boake expressing similar sentiments. [5]
Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake was an Australian stockman and poet who wrote primarily within the bush poetry tradition. He was active for only a few years before his suicide at the age of 26.
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