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y separately published work icon Through the Window : A Window Cleaner Views the World selected work   essay   poetry  
Note: 'Queensland's window cleaner philosopher; better known by the pen name, John O' Rockie'.
Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 Through the Window : A Window Cleaner Views the World
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Notes

  • Essays on social and political issues. Includes a chapter titled 'Poems and Pensees'.
  • Epigraph: That I for my poor country's sake some useful plan of book could make, or sing a sang at least. Burns.
  • Author's note: I've made a plan and I've sung a sang, and ye'll find them in this book.
  • Dedication: This book as a whole is reverentially dedicated to the Memory of one of Nature's Gentle Women...My Foster Mother.
  • Epigraph: Were I hanged on the highest hill/I know whose love would follow me still - Mother o' Mine./Were I damned of body and soul/I know whose prayers would make me whole - Mother o' Mine. Kipling
  • Epigraph: Holiness is a great serving and the taking of the commonplace things in everyday life and walking truly with them. Olive Schreiner.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Fraser and Jenkinson , 1937 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Great Australian Novel (?) : A Few Marginal Notes by Way of Critical Commentary on "The Fortunes of Richard Mahony", J. H. Wood , single work criticism (p. 481-495)
Dinkum Australian, T. H. Wood , single work criticism (p. 495-498)
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Works about this Work

A Window-Cleaner Holds Forth 1937 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 7 July vol. 58 no. 2995 1937; (p. 8)
— Review of Through the Window : A Window Cleaner Views the World J. H. Wood , 1937 selected work essay poetry
A Window-Cleaner Holds Forth 1937 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 7 July vol. 58 no. 2995 1937; (p. 8)
— Review of Through the Window : A Window Cleaner Views the World J. H. Wood , 1937 selected work essay poetry
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