In English literature, an elegy is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
Henry Lawson was born on June 17, 1867, in Grenfell, Australia. He wrote short stories and ballad-like poems, illuminating the lives of rural, working Australians. Lawson is often called Australia's greatest writer..
Lucy Turnbull. Henry Parkes cast a long and wide shadow over politics in Sydney in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born in 1815, he was the son of a yeoman farmer who was forced off his rural holding into the city of Birmingham in England's newly industrialised midlands when Henry was 10.Young Parkes was educated for only a few years and later attended a mechanics' institute.ucy Turnbull. Henry Parkes cast a long and wide shadow over politics in Sydney in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born in 1815, he was the son of a yeoman farmer who was forced off his rural holding into the city of Birmingham in England's newly industrialised midlands when Henry was 10.