Old-poets in Oceania, by popularity

1. Paterson, A B Banjo   Oceania. Born: 1864, Died: 1941, 245 poems.
2. Dennis, C J   Oceania. Born: 1876, Died: 1938, 732 poems.
   Born in Auburn, South Australia, September 1876. Married Olive Harriet in 1917. They had no children. Clarence Michael James Dennis (he liked to be called 'Den') loved to write childrens poetry.
3. Lawson, Henry   Oceania. Born: 1867, Died: 1922, 500 poems.
   By the 1890s Australia had been settled for a little more than 100 years and Lawson was arguably the first Australian-born writer who really looked at Australia with Australian eyes, not influenced by his knowledge of other landscapes. He was the fir
4. Mackellar, Dorothea   Oceania. Born: 1885, Died: 1968 (modern), 12 poems.
   At age 19 she wrote the poem, 'My Country,' with the second verse being one of the best known stanzas in Austrailian poetry.
5. Wright, Judith   Oceania. Born: 1915, Died: 2000 (modern), 33 poems.
   Judith Arundell Wright was born near Armidale, New South Wales, into an old and wealthy pastoral family. Wright was raised on her family's sheep station. After her mother died in 1927, she was educated under her grandmother's supervision.
6. Noonuccal, Oodgeroo   Oceania. Born: 1920, Died: 1993 (modern), 4 poems.
   Oodgeroo Noonuccal was a poet, an actress, writer, teacher, artist and a campaigner for Aboriginal rights But she was best known for her poetry. Oodgeroo was the first Aboriginal Australian to have a book of poetry published.
7. Slessor, Kenneth   Oceania. Born: 1901, Died: 1971 (modern), 73 poems.
   Kenneth Slessor has long been hailed as one of Australia's finest and most important poets. But the terms of praise have often echoed Slessor's own aesthetic principles--that poetry transcends social and political issues; that poetry is imbued
8. Mansfield, Katherine   Oceania. Born: 1888, Died: 1923, 68 poems.
   In almost her last letter, she declared her goal to be total honesty. ‘If I were allowed one single cry to God, that cry would be: I want to be Real.
9. Stewart, Douglas   Oceania. Born: 1913, Died: 1985 (modern), 19 poems.
   His own work included many books of poetry, such as the verse novel The Fire on the Snow, and the memoir Springtime in Taranaki. He died in 1985.
10. Hope, A D   Oceania. Born: 1907, Died: 2000 (modern), 30 poems.
    Many considered Ad Hope to have been an often controversial figure who used an erudite mind and a wicked wit to devastating effect as a critic.
11. Gilmore DBE, Dame Mary   Oceania. Born: 1865, Died: 1962 (modern), 73 poems.
    Dame Mary Gilmore, Australia's 'grand old lady of letters', was the author of over twenty books, the subject of a controversial Dobell portrait, and later featured with Banjo Paterson on the first polymer $10 note.
12. Oceania, Anonymous   Oceania. Born: 1000, Died: 1950, 137 poems.
    Who wrote it?  Who knows? The names fell from the pages,
    Lost and never to return
13. Morant, Harry 'Breaker'   Oceania. Born: 1865, Died: 1902, 39 poems.
    Morant's early life in Australia is known only from fragmentary recollections in after time by people who had known him. Using some of these recollections, he first appeared at Charters Towers in the Queensland back country about the middle of 1884.
14. Crist, Alice Guerin   Oceania. Born: 1876, Died: 1941, 38 poems.
    Her verse interpreted the life and character of the pioneers of Australia, having a special appeal to the Irish migrants of Australia. Alice seemed to be under the spell of the bush,  and the magic of the wattle time
15. Gellert, Leon   Oceania. Born: 1892, Died: 1977 (modern), 84 poems.
    Acclaimed as Australia's greatest war poet.
16. Gordon, Adam Lindsay   Oceania. Born: 1833, Died: 1870, 69 poems.
    Born at Fayel in the Azores and educated in England. Gordon was best known on his arrival in Australia as an amateur Steeplechaser rider in the colonies. His poems relay the stories of his Horseriding career.
17. Campbell, David   Oceania. Born: 1915, Died: 1979 (modern), 6 poems.
    David Campbell served in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1939 to 1945, serving in the South Pacific, he reached the rank of Wing Commander and received the Distinguished Flying Cross with bar.
18. Kendall, Henry   Oceania. Born: 1839, Died: 1882, 198 poems.
    Henry Kendall was born in 1839, an Australian, brought up among the mountains and forests of the south coast of New South Wales.
19. Ogilvie, William Henry   Oceania. Born: 1869, Died: 1963 (modern), 67 poems.
    Although Will Ogilvie spent only 11 years in Australia, coming here from his native Scotland he remains a much loved and admired Bush Poet.
20. Lawson, Louisa   Oceania. Born: 1848, Died: 1920, 5 poems.
    Born in 1848, an Australian writer and advocate of women's rights.
21. Brennan, Christopher   Oceania. Born: 1870, Died: 1921, 79 poems.
    Many critics contend that Christopher Brennan is Australia's most important scholar and poet. Because his poetry was often written in a more obscure fashion, he never received the recognition that scholars of world literature believe he deserved.
22. Cato, Nancy   Oceania. Born: 1917, Died: 2000 (modern), 3 poems.
    Nancy Cato was an acclaimed author. She published several historical novels and biographies and two volumes of poetry. Cato was also a strong campaigner for environmental conservation.
23. Boake, Barcroft Henry   Oceania. Born: 1866, Died: 1892, 37 poems.
    He had little choice but to return to surveying in the Riverina where he began to write poetry based on his bush experiences. His work first appeared in the "Sydney Mail
24. Cambridge, Ada   Oceania. Born: 1844, Died: 1926, 84 poems.
    English born Ada Cambridge (maiden name) married and moved to Australia in 1870
25. Harrington, Captain Edward   Oceania. Born: 1895, Died: 1965 (modern), 9 poems.
    As with much of Ted's work the origins of the song hark back to the Wanalta selection and and his war years. As Hardy reported: "Suddenly Harrington remembered the shack he lived in as a boy, with a tall gum tree just outside the door. Many swagmen u
26. Spencer, Thomas   Oceania. Born: 1845, Died: 1911, 12 poems.
    Famous for "How McDougal Topped the Score" also penned ethnic creole humorous poetry with a German, Irish or Scandinavian flavour.
27. Cross, Zora Bernice May   Oceania. Born: 1890, Died: 1964 (modern), 31 poems.
    Zora'a first book of poetry, A Song of Mother Love, was published in 1916.  Songs of Love .... followed in 1917.
28. Neilson, John Shaw   Oceania. Born: 1872, Died: 1942, 26 poems.
    John Shaw Neilson has become recognised as a great Australian writer. In 1914, A G Stephens called him "chief of Australian poets", a view echoed by many.
29. O Brien, John   Oceania. Born: 1878, Died: 1952, 51 poems.
    John O'Brien was born Patrick Joseph Hartigan on October 13, 1878 in Yass, New South Wales Australia.
30. Ingamells, Rex   Oceania. Born: 1913, Died: 1955, 7 poems.
    Rex Ingamells (1913-54) was both an avid Australian patriot and a pro-monarchist and he saw no contradiction in this stance. A poet and writer, he founded the Jindyworobak movement in Adelaide in 1938. The Jindy poets, as they became known, concentra
31. Manning, Frederic   Oceania. Born: 1882, Died: 1935, 6 poems.
    At 16, was sent to live in England where he began to write his narrative poetry.
32. Harpur, Charles   Oceania. Born: 1813, Died: 1868, 127 poems.
    Charles Harpur was born in 1813 of convict parents and later raised in the Hawkesbury River district of New South Wales. He started his working life as a sheep farmer before moving on the position of assistant gold commissioner at Araluen in 1859. Du
33. Manifold, John Streeter   Oceania. Born: 1915, Died: 1985 (modern), 4 poems.
    He helped found the Realist Writers Group in 1950 and worked extensively in the teaching and performance of music, the manufacture of instruments and the collection and publication of Australian ballads and folk music.
34. Turner, Ethel   Oceania. Born: 1890, Died: 1973 (modern), 5 poems.
    Ethel went on to write The Children’s Page in the Illustrated Sydney News, which was later taken over by Town and Country Journal. She also contributed to the Bulletin and the English Windsor Magazine.
35. McAuley, James Phillip   Oceania. Born: 1917, Died: 1976 (modern), 4 poems.
    And I am fitted to that land as the soul is to the body,
    
    I know its contradictions, waste, and sprawling indolence;
    
    They are in me and its triumphs are my own
    
    Hard-won in the thin and bitter years without pretence.
36. Wright, David McKee   Oceania. Born: 1869, Died: 1928, 6 poems.
    The best of his poetry is marked by self­-awareness and formal restraint; the best of his satires and light verse often have resiliency beyond their initial aims, and merit preservation.
37. Dyson, Edward   Oceania. Born: 1865, Died: 1931, 94 poems.
    Edward Dyson specialised in short stories of which A Golden Shanty has become a classic of the genre. This unforgettable sketch of life during the Gold Rush at Ballarat is often included in Australian anthologies.
38. Brady, Edwin James   Oceania. Born: 1869, Died: 1952, 5 poems.
    Poet and Journalist who established a writers and artists camp at Captain's Point in Mallacoota where he was often visited by friend Henry Lawson to recouperate from his alcoholism.  Also good friend the the first Australian Prime Minister Sir Edmund
39. Daley, Victor James   Oceania. Born: 1858, Died: 1905, 92 poems.
    Victor James Daley was born in Navan, Armagh, Ireland,on  5th September, 1858, to an Irish Father and a Scottish Mother.
40. Thiele, Colin   Oceania. Born: 1920, Died: 2006 (modern), 1 poems.
    He wrote a novel when 11 years old (and, it is said he later burnt it). He had a love of interesting words and unusual language, perhaps because he was a bi-lingual child. One of his first early favourites was  While the Billy Boils by Henry L
41. Hart-Smith, William   Oceania. Born: 1911, Died: 1990 (modern), 3 poems.
    For decades now his work has been popular in schools and it has been widely anthologised in poetry books for children in Australia and overseas. His poems are children's poems in the sense that they can be appreciated by children in primary as well
42. Esson, Thomas Louis Buvelot   Oceania. Born: 1879, Died: 1943, 5 poems.
    He started writing poetry but later turned his talents to short stories and plays. He is now seen as the father of modern Australian drama
    He died in 1943.
43. Evans, George Essex   Oceania. Born: 1863, Died: 1909, 62 poems.
    His first volume, "The Repentance of Magdalene Despar", was published in 1891. In 1892 and 1893 he was associated the production of an annual, "The Antipodean".
44. Bracken, Thomas   Oceania. Born: 1843, Died: 1898, 5 poems.
    He is not a world-poet, but takes honourable rank among the pioneers of Australasian poetry.
45. Parkes, Sir Henry   Oceania. Born: 1815, Died: 1896, 8 poems.
    Known in Australia as the 'Father of Federation' Sir Henry was a typical of a wide range of 19th century politicians, but his very special ability to appreciate the importance of the action he was taking and his vision of a strong and united Australi
46. Wentworth, William Charles   Oceania. Born: 1790, Died: 1872, 2 poems.
    Born on Norfolk Island in 1790. Together with Blaxland and Lawson amde the first (recorded )crossing of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
47. Adams, Arthur   Oceania. Born: 1872, Died: 1936, 77 poems.
    Writer of works for children. Arthur Adams edited three collections of well-known nursery rhymes which were set to music. They were published by Allan's the Australian Music company.
48. Harford, Lesbia   Oceania. Born: 1891, Died: 1927, 176 poems.
    Harford began writing poetry in her adolescence and continued her work upon entering Melbourne University in 1915. One of the first women to study Law she stood outside her fellow students not just for her gender and ill health, but for the fact that
49. Mudie, Ian   Oceania. Born: 1911, Died: 1976 (modern), 9 poems.
    Ian Mudie was born at Hawthorn, South Australia, and worked as an editor and lecturer in creative writing.
50. Palmer, Vance   Oceania. Born: 1885, Died: 1959 (modern), 5 poems.
    (1885–1959). Australian author Vance Palmer is considered one of the founders of Australian drama. His novels, short stories, and plays are noted for disciplined diction and frequent understatement.

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