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Victor
Daley, Australia's best selling poet by 1900, was born and
bred in Armagh. Before that, Daley had been an English clerk,
Australian tramp, country journalist and city satirist. He
versified and caroused his way into literary history by his
work on the Bulletin and Punch in Melbourne and Sydney. Like
the poems of Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, Daley's most
popular pieces were regularly recited in pubs everywhere. His 'Celtic
Twilight' poetry ranks among Australia's finest work in the genre. Some
of his topical work still strikes a chord with Australians' anti-imperialist
feelings.
A popular figure,
he followed a Bohemian lifestyle that proved fatal. His
biography, 'long overdue', here puts the poetry and the
life side by side.
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