The Overflow of Clancy
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"The Overflow of Clancy" | |
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by "H.H.C.C" | |
Written | 1892 |
First published in | The Bulletin |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Publication date | 20 August 1892 |
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The Overflow of Clancy is a poem written under the pseudonym "H.H.C.C" and first published in The Bulletin magazine on 20 August 1892 as part of the Bulletin Debate, a series of poems about the true nature of life in the Australian bush. The poem is a parody of Paterson's Clancy of the Overflow.
Colin Roderick, in his biography Banjo Paterson: Poet by Accident (1993), states on page 76 that he believes the poem was written by Henry Lawson.
However, Herbert Humphrey Cripps-Clark (1860–1929) was a contemporary poet whose initials were the same as those of the pseudonym.
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- Australian poems
- 1892 poems
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- Works originally published in The Bulletin (Australian periodical)