*Ø* Blogmanac September 7, 1876 | CJ Dennis, a sentimental bloke
'Er name's Doreen ...Well, spare me bloomin' days!
You could er knocked me down wiv 'arf a brick!
Yes, me, that kids meself I know their ways,
An' 'as a name for smoogin' in our click!
I just lines up 'an tips the saucy wink.
But strike! The way she piled on dawg! Yer'd think
A bloke was givin' back-chat to the Queen....
'Er name's Doreen.
1876 CJ Dennis (Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis), Australian writer and poet (Songs of a Sentimental Bloke) was born on this day.
“Sending nothing. Go to Hell.”
CJ Dennis was born in Auburn, South Australia,where a Dennis festival is held each September. His father was a publican, and his poetry probably a rebellion against his upbringing by maiden aunts, who dressed him (according to bigrapher Alec Chisholm) in a starchy suit, Eton colllar, patent leather shoes, and so on. He was even obliged to carry a cane. The local boys considered 'Clarence' quite a sissy.
Dennis never called himself Clarence, either CJ or Den. His father gave him a job but he 'shot through' to Broken Hill, where there was no work for a lad with a weak physique. The legend goes he sent a telegram to his father “Send five pounds. Gone to Broken Hill.” His father returned a telegram: "Sending nothing. Go to Hell."
He went to Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, where he helped launch the satirical weekly The Gadfly. 1908 he went to Melbourne, lived in a tent in the Dandenong hills outside the city.
In 1914 CJ Dennis wrote his humorous masterpiece, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, a long narrative poem, or ‘verse novel’ that has become an Australian classic. Rejected by a Melbourne publisher, in the next year it was published by the prestigious publisher, Angus and Robertson. The Sentimental Bloke, as it is usually called (and was named on the spine of the book) was a roaring success, revealing as it did to Australians their own slang and culture of the common people. The book was hugely popular with homesick Aussie troops fighting in the French trenches of World War I. His next book, The Glugs of Gosh, was a popular mixture of satire and fantasy masquerading as a book for children.
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'Er name's Doreen ...Well, spare me bloomin' days!
You could er knocked me down wiv 'arf a brick!
Yes, me, that kids meself I know their ways,
An' 'as a name for smoogin' in our click!
I just lines up 'an tips the saucy wink.
But strike! The way she piled on dawg! Yer'd think
A bloke was givin' back-chat to the Queen....
'Er name's Doreen.
1876 CJ Dennis (Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis), Australian writer and poet (Songs of a Sentimental Bloke) was born on this day.
“Sending nothing. Go to Hell.”
CJ Dennis was born in Auburn, South Australia,where a Dennis festival is held each September. His father was a publican, and his poetry probably a rebellion against his upbringing by maiden aunts, who dressed him (according to bigrapher Alec Chisholm) in a starchy suit, Eton colllar, patent leather shoes, and so on. He was even obliged to carry a cane. The local boys considered 'Clarence' quite a sissy.
Dennis never called himself Clarence, either CJ or Den. His father gave him a job but he 'shot through' to Broken Hill, where there was no work for a lad with a weak physique. The legend goes he sent a telegram to his father “Send five pounds. Gone to Broken Hill.” His father returned a telegram: "Sending nothing. Go to Hell."
He went to Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, where he helped launch the satirical weekly The Gadfly. 1908 he went to Melbourne, lived in a tent in the Dandenong hills outside the city.
In 1914 CJ Dennis wrote his humorous masterpiece, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, a long narrative poem, or ‘verse novel’ that has become an Australian classic. Rejected by a Melbourne publisher, in the next year it was published by the prestigious publisher, Angus and Robertson. The Sentimental Bloke, as it is usually called (and was named on the spine of the book) was a roaring success, revealing as it did to Australians their own slang and culture of the common people. The book was hugely popular with homesick Aussie troops fighting in the French trenches of World War I. His next book, The Glugs of Gosh, was a popular mixture of satire and fantasy masquerading as a book for children.
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