Shaw Neilson
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1872 – 1942
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Who was Shaw Neilson?
John Shaw Neilson, was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life John Shaw Neilson worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia's finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it.
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- Born
- Feb 22, 1872
Penola - Also known as
- John Shaw Neilson
- Died
- May 12, 1942
Melbourne
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on July 23, 2013
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