"When I Was King"
| Title | "When I Was King" |
| Year for Search | 1905 |
| Authors | Lawson, Henry(1867-1922) |
| Secondary Title | The Bulletin (Sydney, NSW, Australia) |
| Volume / Edition | 26 |
| Pagination | 35 |
| Date Published | January 26, 1905 |
| Keywords | Australian author, Male author |
| Annotation | Eutopia. Poem written from the perspective of a king who got rid of the slums and built good houses, gave land to the farmers, and worked with his people. At the end he gives in to requests that he don the royal regalia and is corrupted. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his When I Was King and Other Verses (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1905), 1-9; and in his A Fantasy of Man. Vol. 2 of Complete Works. Ed. Leonard Cronin (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Lansdowne, 1984), 217. |
| Holding Institutions | A, ATL, VUW |
| Author Note | An Australian author (1867-1922) who lived off and on in New Zealand from 1893-1902. |
| Full Text | 1905 Lawson, Henry (1867-1922). “When I Was King.” The Bulletin (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 26 (January 26, 105): 35. Rpt. in his When I Was King and Other Verses (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1905), 1-9; and in his A Fantasy of Man. Vol. 2 of Complete Works. Ed. Leonard Cronin (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Lansdowne, 1984), 217. A, ATL, VUW Eutopia. Poem written from the perspective of a king who got rid of the slums and built good houses, gave land to the farmers, and worked with his people. At the end he gives in to requests that he don the royal regalia and is corrupted. An Australian author who lived off and on in New Zealand from 1893-1902. |
