Popular & folk poetry
Articles
- Review of Colonial Ballads by Hugh Anderson
The new edition of Colonial Ballads, now revised, expanded, and issued by Cheshire, focusses attention again on this newly-unearthed aspect of our Folk culture…
1 December 1963 - Early Australian Poetry and its Bibliographers
Students of Australian cultural history have long been curiously reluctant to analyse the whole body of early Australian poetry. Here I should like to suggest…
1 October 1969 - ‘The Ram of Albury’
The Australian 'Ram of Dalby' represents an adaptation of an English landsman's song to the Australian situation. 'The Albury Ram', however, represents a fusion of…
1 October 1969 - Review Frank the Poet by John Meredith and Rex Whalan
Discussion of Australian folk ballads and their origin frequently leads to speculation about a person vaguely known as Frank the Poet or Francis MacNamara, thought…
1 October 1980