Roderic Quinn

(1867-1949) was born in Sydney of Irish parents who had come to Australia about 1853. He was educated in Sydney with his lifelong friends E.J. Brady and C.J. Brennan, studied law briefly, was a country schoolteacher, then returned to Sydney as a freelance journalist. His chief publications are the romantic novel Mostyn Stayne (1897) and three books of verse, The Hidden Tide (1899), The Circling Hearths (1901) and Poems (1920), his major volume. He also wrote short stories for the Bulletin. From the mid-1890s to the mid-1920s Quinn made a modest living from his poetry, which was greatly admired by his contemporaries. Although linked with Victor Daley as poets of the so-called Celtic Twilight, Quinn lacked Daley's easy, lyric artistry. He often attempted more, however, for in addition to capturing the spirit and atmosphere of the Australian outdoors he sought a hidden meaning beneath the externals of life and nature.

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