Andy's Gone with Cattle
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Written1888
First published inThe Australian Town & Country Journal
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
| "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 |
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 Andy's Gone with Cattle at Wikisource | |
Andy's Gone With Cattle is a poem by Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson.[1] It was first published in The Australian Town and Country Journal on 13 October 1888.[2]
The "Andy" of this poem re-appeared in a sequel, "Andy's Return", which was published in the same journal some six weeks later.[3]
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "[the poem] laments the departure of a member of a selection family to go overlanding cattle."[4]
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.[4]
- The "Andy" of this poem is not the same "Andy" as described in Lawson's poem "Middleton's Rouseabout".[4]
