There’s been quite a deal of discussion lately across the spectrum about what the “new” Australian or the “old” Australian should know. Should they know about “the Don”? Who was Australia’s first prime minister? There’s not much argument, however, about the 1890s as an important decade in Australian history: the drought, the depression, the strikes, the federation movement and more. In this context, it’s worth reminding ourselves of a couple of poems from that period, both written in the 1890s but showing very different sides of our poetic psyche, a difference which can still be sensed in our poetry today.…
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