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Old-poets in Oceania, by popularity

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  1. Baxter, James K   Oceania. Born: 1926, Died: 1972 (modern), 2 poems.
  2. Blight, John   Oceania. Born: 1913, Died: 1995 (modern), 3 poems.
    Blight's large output of poems whose subject is the sea led to his becoming known as the leading poet of the sea.
  3. Mackenzie, Kenneth   Oceania. Born: 1913, Died: 1955, 1 poems.
    Kenneth Mackenzie was educated at Guildford Grammar School, and studied briefly at Muresk Agricultural College and the University of Western Australia. He left Perth in December 1933 for Melbourne and then Sydney, on the advice of Norman Lindsay.
  4. Stephens, James Brunton   Oceania. Born: 1835, Died: 1902, 59 poems.
  5. Quinn, Roderic   Oceania. Born: 1867, Died: 1949, 89 poems.
    Roderic Quinn was born in Sydney, the son of Irish parents. He was educated at Catholic schools, meeting Christopher Brennan in his early years and forming a life-long friendship with E. J. Brady at the Marist Brothers' School. After finishing school
  6. Cuthbertson, James Lister   Oceania. Born: 1851, Died: 1910, 10 poems.
    James Lister Cuthbertson, was born in  Scotland in  1851. He received his education at both  Glenalmond, and Merton College, Oxford, from where he graduated  with  B.A.
  7. Moll, Ernest G   Oceania. Born: 1900, Died: 1997 (modern), 2 poems.
    Born in Australia, spent many year in America, most of his poetry is based upon his home country. He died in America in 1997
  8. Hudson, Flexmore   Oceania. Born: 1913, Died: 1988 (modern), 2 poems.
    During the period 1941 to 1947 Hudson founded, edited and published the literary journal, Poetry . He also edited the 1943 anthology of Australian verse for Jindyworobak and contributed to the Jindyworobak anthologies from
  9. Allen, Marian   Oceania. Born: 1892, Died: 1953, 2 poems.
  10. Edmond, Lauris Dorothy   Oceania. Born: 1924, Died: 2000 (modern), 4 poems.
    A late twentieth century New Zealand poet who spoke up for women who had felt forced to bury their own creativity in order to live a life of domesticity.
  11. Church, Hubert   Oceania. Born: 1857, Died: 1932, 4 poems.
    Church's sense of personal isolation, religious doubt and melancholy contributed to a pervasive sense of gloom throughout his verse. Even in his own time this mood repelled some readers, who found the metaphysical musings and vocabulary of the 1912 P
  12. Field, Barron   Oceania. Born: 1786, Died: 1846, 5 poems.
    Barron Field was born October 23, 1786. He became Supreme Court Judge, in Sydney, in February 1817. Field published one of the first books of poetry in Australia in 1819.
  13. Hannay-Foott, Mary   Oceania. Born: 1846, Died: 1918, 29 poems.
  14. Thatcher, Charles   Oceania. Born: 1831, Died: 1878, 5 poems.
    A nineteenth century Australian writer who wrote many songs and ditties about his times in the goldfields.
  15. Goodge, W T   Oceania. Born: 1862, Died: 1909, 17 poems.
    William Thomas Goodge was born in London in 1862 and arrived in Sydney in 1882 after working his passage aboard ship as a steward. He roamed around outback New South Wales for twelve years before settling into life as a jounalist.
  16. Adams, Francis William Lauderdale   Oceania. Born: 1862, Died: 1893, 92 poems.
    The brief, brave life of Francis William Lauderdale Adams— —makes a dramatic and remarkable story. Adams  was a brilliant English writer who championed the cause of nationalism and socialism in Australia in the 1880's.
  17. Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton   Oceania. Born: 1856, Died: 1947, 7 poems.
    Sladen was a travel writer, author and editor of Who's Who between 1897-1899.
  18. Suffolk, Owen   Oceania. Born: 1829, 15 poems.
    He had ample opportunity to earn a living in his chosen profession, but he chose once again turned to crime, and was again sentenced for horse stealing shortly afterwards.
  19. Langley, Eve Maria   Oceania. Born: 1904, Died: 1974 (modern), 1 poems.
    A twentieth century New Zealand poet and novelist whose work "has colour and a swift imagery, which changes shape in her exotic mind without effort or strain".
  20. Peacocke, Isabel Maud   Oceania. Born: 1881, Died: 1973 (modern), 1 poems.
    No other New Zealand author has given a more detailed picture of the period of the First World War. Soldiers leave for, and sometimes return injured from, the battlefield. Children are fatherless, unemployment and tuberculosis take their toll and p
  21. Andersen, Johannes Carl   Oceania. Born: 1873, Died: 1962 (modern), 3 poems.
    Born in Denmark in 1873, Andersen moved to New Zealand at the age of two years.
  22. Riddell, Elizabeth   Oceania. Born: 1910, Died: 1998 (modern), 1 poems.
  23. Baylebridge, William   Oceania. Born: 1883, Died: 1942, 10 poems.
    Born in Brisbane in 1883. He published many limited editions of his poetry and constantly revised and republished many of his poems.
  24. Jephcott, Sydney Wheeler   Oceania. Born: 1864, Died: 1951, 20 poems.
    Jephcott, Sydney Wheeler (1864-1951), Born at Colac-Colac (Victoria), 30th November, 1864, parents having lately immigrated from Warwickshire (England). Grew up in the bush and educated himself.
  25. Bedford, Ruth   Oceania. Born: 1882, Died: 1963 (modern), 1 poems.
    Ruth Bedford was a member of the well connected Anglo-Australian Stephen family.
  26. Chandler, Alfred Thomas   Oceania. Born: 1852, Died: 1941, 1 poems.
    Born 1852 Geelong Victoria.
    Alfred Chandler was  to began his journalistic career at the Hamilton Spectator. He moved to Adelaide in 1878 and was the co-founder of the Adelaide satirical weekly Quiz in 1892.
  27. Holdsworth, Philip Joseph   Oceania. Born: 1849, Died: 1902, 3 poems.
  28. Mack, Louise   Oceania. Born: 1874, Died: 1935, 2 poems.
    The following year, Sydney publishers Angus and Robertson published Louise Mack's 'Teens: A Story of Australian Schoolgirls', illustrated by Frank Mahony. This book was published in answer to Ward, Lock's publication of Ethel Turner's 'Seven Little A
  29. Pitt, Marie E J   Oceania. Born: 1869, Died: 1948, 4 poems.
  30. Gay, William   Oceania. Born: 1812, Died: 1897, 12 poems.
    William wrote many poems during his time in the Colonies. He had opinions on politicians, the Irish, deserted wives, the clergy, education, child rearing and many other subjects.
  31. Reeves, William Pember   Oceania. Born: 1857, Died: 1932, 1 poems.
    Reeves also began writing poetry and short stories. The Lyttelton Times Company published a book of poems under the title, Colonial couplets, being poems in partnership by Reeves and G. P. Williams.
  32. Furphy, Joseph   Oceania. Born: 1843, Died: 1912, 26 poems.
    Joseph Furphy gained his education at a small school in Kyneton, and subsequently worked on his father’s farm before trying his luck on the goldfields. He was then employed as a threshing machine operator in the Daylesford district
  33. Clarke, Marcus   Oceania. Born: 1846, Died: 1881, 3 poems.
    Ian McLaren has described him as 'essentially the journalist. He was able to sense a story; he was aggressive and combative, ready to translate his thoughts into arresting words that caught the imagination of the public, or aroused antagonism to his
  34. Forrest, M   Oceania. Born: 1872, Died: 1935, 2 poems.
  35. McCrae, George Gordon   Oceania. Born: 1833, Died: 1927, 6 poems.
    Father of Australian poet Hugh McCrae
  36. Le Gay Brereton, John   Oceania. Born: 1871, Died: 1933, 72 poems.
    One of the most notable of the Sydney Grammar School alumni was John Le Gay Brereton, the first director of the Fisher Library and later the first Challis Professor of English Literature at the University of Sydney.
  37. Baughan, Blanche Edith   Oceania. Born: 1870, Died: 1958 (modern), 6 poems.
    Blanche Baughan became interested in developing a style of poetry relevant to a new colony. Her earliest published New Zealand poems, 'Young Hotspur' and 'The old place', were first published in the London Spectator in 1902
  38. Mackay, Jessie   Oceania. Born: 1864, Died: 1938, 7 poems.
    Mackay, Jessie (1864–1938), was born in the Rakaia Gorge of Scottish parentage and educated in Christchurch.New Zealand. She has been described  as ‘the first poet of any importance to be born in New Zealand’.
  39. Davies, Norma L   Oceania. Born: 1905, Died: 1945, 1 poems.
  40. Barr, John   Oceania. Born: 1809, Died: 1889, 1 poems.
    Barr enjoyed a successful career as a poet, and achieved some eminence in Otago society. He was made laureate to the Caledonian Society of Otago
  41. Robinson, Roland   Oceania. Born: 1912, Died: 1992 (modern), 5 poems.
    Robinson's first published poetry appeared in Beyond the Grass-Tree Spears published in 1944.  He served in the Australian Army.
  42. Coombe-Tennant, Winifred   Oceania. Born: 1874, Died: 1956 (modern), 1 poems.
    Mrs. Willett was the pseudonym of Mrs. Winifred Coombe Tennant who, during her lifetime, had been a gifted medium and automatic writer.
  43. Hyland, Inez K   Oceania. Born: 1863, Died: 1892, 3 poems.
    Born in Portland (Victoria), 1863; daughter of T. F. Hyland
    and grand-daughter of Dr. Penfold, Magill (S.A.).
  44. Castilla, Ethel   Oceania. Born: 1837, Died: 1895, 2 poems.
    Born at Kyneton, Victoria, 19th June, 1861; daughter of
    Frederic Ramos de Castilla, an Englishman of Spanish descent,
  45. Marshall-Hall, George William Lewis   Oceania. Born: 1862, Died: 1915, 2 poems.
  46. Rowe, Richard P L   Oceania. Born: 1828, Died: 1879, 3 poems.
    Born at Doncaster, England, 9th March, 1828. Emigrated to Australia
    when young.
  47. Wilcox, Dora   Oceania. Born: 1873, Died: 1953, 5 poems.
    Born at Christchurch, New Zealand, 1873
  48. Gye, Hal   Oceania. Born: 1887, Died: 1967 (modern), 4 poems.
    Also wrote under the name of James Hackston
  49. Farrell, John   Oceania. Born: 1851, Died: 1904, 1 poems.
    Born in Buenos Aires (South America),  on 18th December, 1851, of Irish parents. He and his parents emigrated  to Australia,in  1852; where he  spent his childhood and youth in the Victorian bush working as a farmer.
  50. Napier, Elliott   Oceania. Born: 1870, Died: 1940, 4 poems.
    His work includes The Magic Carpet (1932) a collection of biographical sketches and two collections of verse Potted Biographies and Underneath the Bough.
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