C.J. Dennis
(1876-1938)
Australian poet
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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".
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Clarence Michael James Dennis 6 September 1876 Auburn, South Australia, Australia
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| Died |
22 June 1938 (aged 61) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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