Andy's Gone with Cattle
Poem by Henry Lawson
"Andy's Gone with Cattle" | |
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by Henry Lawson | |
Written | 1888 |
First published in | The Australian Town & Country Journal |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Publication date | 13 October 1888 (1888-10-13) |
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Andy's Gone With Cattle is a poem by Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in The Australian Town & Country Journal on 13 October 1888.[1]
The "Andy" of this poem re-appeared in a sequel, "Andy's Return", which was published in the same journal some six weeks later.[2]
Critical reception
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "[the poem] laments the departure of a member of a selection family to go overlanding cattle."[3]
Trivia
- Some of the best-known lines in the poem were revisions of Lawson's originals by David McKee Wright when the poem was being prepared for publication in Lawson's Selected Poems in 1918.[3]
- The "Andy" of this poem is not the same "Andy" as described in Lawson's poem "Middleton's Rouseabout".[3]
Further publications
- In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses by Henry Lawson (1896)
- An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Bertram Stevens (1907)
- Selected Poems of Henry Lawson (1918)
- Favourite Australian Poems edited by Ian Mudie (1963)
- From the Ballads to Brennan edited by T. Inglis Moore (1964)
- Poems of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone (1973)
- Australia Fair: Poems and Paintings edited by Douglas Stewart (1974)
- The World of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone (1974)
- The Essential Henry Lawson edited by Brian Kiernan (1982)
- A Treasury of Colonial Poetry (1982)
- A Camp-Fire Yarn: Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Leonard Cronin (1984)
- The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse edited by Beatrice Davis (1984)
- Henry Lawson: An Illustrated Treasury compiled by Glenys Smith (1985)
- The Bushwackers Australian Song Book edited by Jan Wositzky and Dobe Newton (1988)
- A Collection of Australian Bush Verse (1989)
- A Treasury of Bush Verse by G. A. Wilkes (1991)
- Australian Bush Poems (1991)
- The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads edited by Elizabeth Webby and Philip Butterss (1993)
- The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse compiled by Beatrice Davis (1996)
- Classic Australian Verse edited by Maggie Pinkney (2001)
See also
- 1888 in poetry
- 1888 in literature
- 1888 in Australian literature
- Australian literature
References
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Works by Henry Lawson
- Flag of the Southern Cross (1887)
- A Song of the Republic (1887)
- Faces in the Street (1888)
- Andy's Gone with Cattle (1888)
- The Roaring Days (1889)
- The Teams (1889)
- The Fire at Ross's Farm (1890)
- The Song of Old Joe Swallow (1890)
- Freedom on the Wallaby (1891)
- Up the Country (1892)
- The City Bushman (1892)
- The Poets of the Tomb (1892)
- Saint Peter (1893)
- The Never-Never Country (1901)
- Scots of the Riverina (1917)
- His Father's Mate (1888)
- The Drover's Wife (1892)
- The Bush Undertaker (1892)
- On the Edge of a Plain (1893)
- The Union Buries Its Dead (1893)
- Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster (1898)
- The Loaded Dog (1901)
- A Double Buggy at Lahey's Creek (1901)
- A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father (1902)
- While the Billy Boils (1896)
- On the Track (1900)
- Over the Sliprails (1900)
- Joe Wilson and His Mates (1901)
- Crime in the Bush (1899)
- While the Billy Boils (1921)
- Lawson (1943)
- Three in One (1957)
- The Drover's Wife (2021)