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 (1888-10-13)
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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)

See also

• 1888 in poetry
• 1888 in literature
• 1888 in Australian literature
• Australian literature

References

1. The Australian Town & Country Journal, 13 October 1888, p757
2. The Australian Town & Country Journal, 24 November 1888, p1068
3. The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd edition, p31