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bush ballad

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bush ballad
n
(Literature / Poetry) an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush


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By the late 1820s, the sympathy between ex-convicts and Bush-rangers had become the stuff of bush ballads.
Stevens, Banjo Paterson and Douglas Stewart all agree that if Barcroft Boake had lived longer he would have become one of the greatest masters of the bush ballad in Australia.
For all the Boys Own atmosphere, the bush ballads and the mawkish sentimentality it does contain works of special interest and appeal.
 
 
 
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