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..
Unfortunately, in 1902 Lawson returned from London very depressed and at some time he had developed an alcohol problem and he was extremely depressed. He did not care for hims â¦ elf properly and in 1920 he suffered a brain haemorrhage and was hospitalised for quite some time.Henry Lawson died in a cottage in Abbotsford on the 2nd of September 1922 at the age of fifty-five.enry suffered an ear infection in 1876 which left him with partial deafness, and by the age of fourteen he lost his hearing. Lawson was alcoholic, was jailed for failing to â¦ support his family, and institutionalised due to his drinking. His mother, a writer and feminist, helped him get his first work published.