Volume 26 No. 1 — 1 May 2011

Two Lost Poems by Henry Lawson about the Boer War

Charles Ferrall

Abstract

Ferrall discusses Lawson’s ambivalent attitude to the Boer War in the light of two pro-war poems which first appeared in several newspapers in 1900 and which have never been republished.

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Published 1 May 2011 in Volume 26 No. 1. Subjects: Boer War, Nationalist & patriotic poetry, War, Henry Lawson.

Cite as: Ferrall, Charles. ‘Two Lost Poems by Henry Lawson about the Boer War.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 2011, doi: 10.20314/als.d4ca07e91b.

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