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Shaw Neilson | aka Shaw Neilson | ||
==Life== | ==Life== | ||
'''Born:''' 22 February 1872 | '''Born:''' 22 February 1872 | ||
'''Died:''' 12 May 1942 | '''Died:''' 12 May 1942 | ||
'''Biography''' | '''Biography''' | ||
John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia's finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it. | John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia's finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it. | ||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Neilson View the Wikipedia article on John Shaw Neilson | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Neilson View the Wikipedia article on John Shaw Neilson.] | ||
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==Publications== | ==Publications== | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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aka Shaw Neilson
Life
Born: 22 February 1872
Died: 12 May 1942
Biography
John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia's finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it.
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