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"The Roaring Days" (1889) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Lawson.
It was originally published in The Bulletin on 21 December 1889, and subsequently reprinted in a collection of the author's poems, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.




Critical reception


When reviewing Lawson's poetry collection In the Days when the World was Wide and Other Verses, a writer in The Evening News (Sydney) noted: "Mr. Lawson is not, indeed, likely to be ever revealed in the character of a master singer, but so far as he goes he is really a minstrel of native fire, and not like a good many who pretend to that character, a merely ingenious imitator or adaptor of other people's ideas."
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states that "The Roaring Days" is "a phrase referring nostalgically to the gold rushes. Its best-known literary use is in Henry Lawson's poem, 'The Roaring Days', written from Lawson's boyhood memories of Gulgong and Pipeclay."




Publication history


After the poem's initial publication in The Bulletin it was reprinted as follows:

In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses, 1900
Selected Poems of Henry Lawson by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1918
Winnowed Verse by Henry Lawson, Angus and Robertson, 1924
Selections from Australian Poets edited by Bertram Stephens and George Mackaness, Cornstalk Publishing, 1925
Australian Bush Songs and Ballads edited by Will Lawson, Frank Johnson, 1944
An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by George Mackaness, Angus & Robertson, 1952
A Book of Australian Verse edited by Judith Wright, Oxford University Press, 1956
New Land, New Language : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Judith Wright, Oxford University Press, 1957
Favourite Australian Poems edited by Ian Mudie, Rigby, 1963
Silence Into Song : An Anthology of Australian Verse edited by Clifford O'Brien, Rigby, 1968
Australian Kaleidoscope edited by Barbara Ker Wilson, Collins, 1968
This Land : An Anthology of Australian Poetry for Young People edited by M. M. Flynn and J. Groom, Pergamon Press, 1968
Poems of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone, Ure Smith, 1973
The World of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone, Hamlyn, 1974
The Essential Henry Lawson : The Best Works of Australia's Greatest Writer edited Brian Kiernan, Currey O'Neil, 1982
A Campfire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Leonard Cronin, Lansdowne, 1984
Cross-Country : A Book of Australian Verse edited by John Barnes and Brian MacFarlane, Heinemann, 1984
The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads edited by Elizabeth Webby and Philip Butterss, Penguin, 1993
Classic Australian Verse edited by Maggie Pinkney, Five Mile Press, 2001
Australian Poetry Since 1788 edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, University of NSW Press, 2011




See also


1889 in Australian literature
1889 in poetry




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