C. J. Dennis

Clarence Michael James Dennis was born on 7 September 1876 at Auburn, in South Australia, the son of a hotelkeeper. A clerk for a solicitor, he joined the Adelaide Critic in 1897, worked for a time in Broken Hill, then founded the magazine The Gadfly in 1906. Settled at Toolangi, near Melbourne, at the end of 1908, he spent most of his life there. From 1922 he was the Melbourne Herald's resident poet, in which he published, according to the ADB, more than three thousand pieces. He died in Melbourne on 22 June 1938, and Prime Minister Joseph Lyons hailed him as the Australian Robert Burns.

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• PoetryThe Songs of a Sentimental BlokeC. J. Dennis · 1915LiteraturePublic domain