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..
Henry Avery is known for still life and portrait painting, sculpture. Biography. Henry Avery. Henry Avery, born in 1906 in Margatan, North Carolina, was an African-American muralist, still life and portrait painter who moved to Chicago in the 1930's. He influenced Chicago's art community, but seemed to disappear from the art scene in the 1950's, and few details about his life have surfaced.