Arthur Bayldon

Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox writer Arthur Bayldon (20 March 1865 – 26 September 1958)<ref name="ADB">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was an English-born Australian poet.

Life

Bayldon was born in 1865, at Leeds, England, and was educated at Leeds Grammar School.<ref>E. Morris Miller & Frederick T. Macartney, Australian Literature, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1956, p.53.</ref> He emigrated to Brisbane in 1889 prior to which he had travelled extensively in Europe. He was an excellent swimmer, and drew much attention to a stroke of his own invention – underwater on his back, with legs and arms bound.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He was literary critic for The Bulletin, and as a bush poet has been ranked with Henry Lawson, Banjo Patterson, Will Ogilvie, E. J. Brady, and Rod Quinn.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He died in 1958, aged 93.

Bibliography

Poetry collections

• Lays and Lyrics (1887)
• Poems (1897)
• The Western Track and Other Verses (1905)
• The Eagles : Collected Poems of Arthur Bayldon (1921)
• Apollo in Australia; and Bush Verses (1944)

Short story collection

• The Tragedy Behind the Curtain and Other Stories (1910)

References

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