Doreen
C.J. Dennis
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Doreen, the third C.J. Dennis publication using his "Sentimental Bloke" characters, was first published by in October 1917 by Angus and Robertson.
The four tales in verse in Doreen describe the married life of "the Bloke", dramatising his communication and his conflicts with his "little wife", illustrating their differences in the raising of "young Bill", but ultimately emphasising their domestic happiness.
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Clarence Michael James Dennis (1876–1938) became a successful poet in 1914, largely due to the popularity of his idiomatic verse form. As ‘staff-poet’ of the Melbourne Herald from 1922, Dennis married and settled in Toolangi in north-east Melbourne.
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