My Dad loved C J Dennis's The Sentimental Bloke. In fact he loved a great deal of popular culture and quoted it with gusto. He was born in l919 and his youth was spent with yarns like Tarzan, Bulldog ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

THE heartwarming story of true love told in verse and flavoured by Australian slang, ­resonated with audiences far and wide. Flies are almost as plentiful as grains of sand but the soldiers ignore ...

When C.J. Dennis’s verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke was launched in 1915, it went off “like a packet of firecrackers”, as the book’s illustrator observed. This gently humorous story about ...

When C.J. Dennis's The Songs of the Sentimental Bloke was published on this day in October 1915, it became a phenomenon, spawning three sequels and a host of stage and film adaptations. Here we ...

The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot. In his trademark colloquial style CJ Dennis recounts the Bloke's instant attraction to Doreen, their first words and her first rebuff, accompanied by lengthy ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) When C.J. Dennis's verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke was launched in 1915, it went off“like a packet of firecrackers”, as the book's illustrator observed. This ...