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Barcroft Boake Barcroft Boake i(A14848 works by) (a.k.a. Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake)
Also writes as: Surcingle ; B. H. B.
Born: Established: 26 Mar 1866 Balmain, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 2 May 1892 Long Bay, Malabar, Randwick area, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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2 The Ringer's Martyrdom Barcroft Boake , (Manuscript version)x402097 Z1631253 2007 single work short story
— Appears in: Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 213-219; notes 286)
1 1 An Irish Leader i "Deposed insulted yet uncowed he stands", Barcroft Boake , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 200-201; notes 285) Tintean : The Australian Irish Heritage Network , December vol. 14 no. 2010; (p. 21)
1 Beaten (Dundoo Stn October 1889) i "Now Jerry! Don't stand there the picture of shame,", Barcroft Boake , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 198-199; notes 284)
1 Something We See When We Haven't Got a Gun i "You've read about Gourmands and Epicures too,", Barcroft Boake , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 196-197; notes 284)
1 A Lovers Quarrel i "They sat within a rustic Bower,", Barcroft Boake , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 194-195; notes 284)
1 To Three Graces i "I watched you on that summers night", Barcroft Boake , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 189-190; notes 282)
1 Down by the Riverside i "Down by the riverside my love and I were roaming", Barcroft Boake , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 188; notes 282)
1 Goodbye i "Rosedale my other home, to you I bid", Barcroft Boake , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 186-187; notes 281-282)
1 A Few Verses i "Miss Jean I've commanded", Barcroft Boake , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 184-185; notes 280-281)
1 The Mournful History of Little Billee i "Little Billee went to Rosedale", Barcroft Boake , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 182-183; notes 280)
1 In Memoriam i "There's a stockwhip hanging idle", Barcroft Boake , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 60; notes 251-252)
1 2 y separately published work icon Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life Barcroft Boake , W. F. Refshauge (editor), Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2007 Z1433606 2007 collected work poetry 'The 1890s produced an extraordinary outpouring of distinctively Australian writing. The most famous writers now are Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, but others were as well known in their day. Among the half-forgotten poets is Barcroft Boake, who as a young man from Sydney found a job up country, and fell in love with the bush way of life. From Western Queensland in summer to Adaminaby in winter, he lived that life, and it sustains his writing. His wrote about what he found: very real people, often people he knew, and their successes and disasters. But he was also a casualty of the hard times of the early 'nineties. In the grip of depression, aged just twenty-six, he killed himself. His best-known work is the ballad 'Where the Dead Men Lie', an Australian classic. He wrote many others as attractive but less well known. Here, they are all carefully edited, and the extensive notes include background on the events and characters in the poems.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 To a Hatpeg i "There's a nice little hatpeg that hangs on the wall", Barcroft Boake , 2002 single work poetry
— Appears in: Where the Dead Men Lie : The Story of Barcroft Boake, Bush Poet of the Monaro : 1866-1892 2002; (p. 228-229) Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 191-193; notes 282-284)
1 Another World Barcroft Boake , 1993 single work prose
— Appears in: The Romance of the Stockman : The Lore, Legend and Literature of Australia's Outback Heroes 1993; (p. 236)
1 The First Published Poem by Barcroft Boake Barcroft Boake , Watty Fielder , 1963 single work
— Appears in: Biblionews , vol. 16 no. 5 1963; (p. 13-15)
1 Untitled i ""What do I see? A forehead fair", Barcroft Boake , 1913 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 15 January 1913; (p. 16)
1 The Minstrel's Curse i "A dusky queen upon her throne", Barcroft Boake , 1907 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australia , 11 July 1907; The Bookfellow , 11 July 1907; (p. 26) Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 209-212; notes 286)
1 A Bush School-Girl i "A school report - and yet it speaks;", Barcroft Boake , 1907 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australia , 11 July 1907; Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 202-204; notes 285)
1 The Phantom Moorings : A Legend of Lavender Bay i "On Lanvender the moon broke bright - the Bay looked sweetly pretty:", Barcroft Boake , 1903 single work poetry
— Appears in: Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 162-169; notes 276-278)
1 Jess i "And do you tell me, love, that death is near?", Barcroft Boake , 1899 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Bookfellow , 18 February 1899; (p. 14-15) The Bookfellow , 1 May 1913; (p. 120) Steele Rudd's Monthly , April 1923; (p. 813-814) Barcroft Boake: Collected Works, Edited, with a Life 2007; (p. 179-181; notes 280)
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