The good season by John Shaw Neilson, 1929

MLMSS 8100

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1929

947301

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Textual Records<br>Textual Records - (printed)

John Shaw Neilson is widely regarded as one of Australia's finest lyric poets. Neilson's formal education was limited and he spent much of his life as a farm-hand and itinerant worker. He was largely self-taught in poetic techniques but received valuable advice and encouragement from the critic and editor A. G. Stephens. His first poem was published in the Bulletin in 1896 and his first published volume of poems appeared in 1919.

Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/neilson-john-shaw-764 (accessed October 18, 2011)

Original manuscript of the poem 'The good season' together with a typed copy of the poem. The manuscript poem is signed by Neilson. The printed version states 'Original, unpublished. If declining, please return to Stephens, agent, Box 711 G, GPO, Sydney.'
The poem was first published in May 1930 in The Sydney Morning Herald, and appears in the 'Collected Poems John Shaw Neilson' (1934).

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