C. J. Dennis
Australian poet
Died when: 61 years 288 days (741 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis (7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938), better known as C.J.Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915).
Alongside his contemporaries and occasional collaborators Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, Dennis helped popularise Australian slang in literature, earning him the title 'the laureate of the larrikin'.
When Dennis died, Australia's then Prime Minister Joseph Lyons said he was destined to be remembered as the 'Australian Robert Burns'.
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