Andy's Gone with Cattle

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]

"Andy's Gone with Cattle"
by Henry Lawson
Written1888
First published inThe Australian Town & Country Journal
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Publication date13 October 1888 (1888-10-13)
Full text
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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

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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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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References

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