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The Sentimental Bloke is a 1918 Australian silent film based on the 1915 verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke by C. J. Dennis. Produced and directed by Raymond Longford, the film stars Arthur Tauchert, Gilbert Emery, and Lottie Lyell, who also co-wrote the film with Longford.
May 13, 2011 · A classic Australian poem that describes the wedding day of a man and a woman who are not very compatible. The poem uses slang, rhyme and humor to mock the traditional rituals and expectations of marriage.
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a verse novel by Australian poet and journalist C. J. Dennis. Portions of the work appeared in The Bulletin between 1909 and 1915, the year the verse novel was completed and published by Angus & Robertson.
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1917 [first published 1915] Editor’s notes: The poem by Léon Montenaeken translates from French as follows: Life is vain : A little love, A little hate . . . And then — good day! Life is brief : A little hope, A little dream . . . And then — goodnight!
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke was the first of CJ Dennis's "verse novels" and introduced the Sentimental Bloke, Doreen and Ginger Mick. Lavishly illustrated by Hal Gye (whose larrikin cherubs will be forever linked with The Bloke) it was first published in 1915 by Angus & Robertson of Sydney, with an introduction from Henry Lawson.
Nov 26, 2012 · Though Dennis's work is less well known today, his 1916 publication of The Sentimental Bloke sold 65,000 copies in its first year, and by 1917 he was the most prosperous poet in Australian...
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