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Arthur Bayldon

Arthur Bayldon

Australian poet

Arthur Bayldon (20 March 1865 – 26 September 1958)[1] was an English-born Australian poet.

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

Bayldon was born in 1865, at Leeds, England, and was educated at Leeds Grammar School.[2] He emigrated to the Colony of New South Wales in 1889 prior to which he had travelled extensively in Europe. He was an excellent swimmer, and drew much attention to a stroke of his own invention — underwater on his back, with legs and arms bound.[3]

He was literary critic for The Bulletin, and as a bush poet has been ranked with Henry Lawson, Banjo Patterson, Will Ogilvie, E. J. Brady, and Rod Quinn.[4]

He died in 1958, aged 93.

Bibliography

Poetry collections

  • Lays and Lyrics (1887)
  • Poems (1897)
  • The Western Track and Other Verses (1905)
  • The Eagles : Collected Poems of Arthur Bayldon (1921)
  • Apollo in Australia; and Bush Verses (1944)

Short story collection

  • The Tragedy Behind the Curtain and Other Stories (1910)

References

  1. [1]
    "Bayldon, Arthur Albert Dawson (1865–1958) by Ken Stewart". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  2. [2]
    E. Morris Miller & Frederick T. Macartney, Australian Literature, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1956, p.53.
  3. [3]
    "Arthur Bayldon — Some Fragments of Autobiography". The Worker (Wagga). New South Wales, Australia. 23 June 1910. p. 21. Retrieved 26 May 2020 – via Trove.
  4. [4]
    "The Gay Company of Balladists". The Sydney Morning Herald. New South Wales, Australia. 16 August 1949. p. 2. Retrieved 26 May 2020 – via Trove.

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