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 | |
| Written | 1888 | 
| First published in | The Australian Town & Country Journal | 
| Country | Australia | 
| Language | English | 
| Publication date | 13 October 1888 | 
| Full text | |
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
    
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
    
- 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
    
- 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)
 
References
    
- The Australian Town & Country Journal, 13 October 1888, p757
 - The Australian Town & Country Journal, 24 November 1888, p1068
 - The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd edition, p31
 
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